From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, cedric.chepied@gmail.com, 14461@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:44:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wofbn6e6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878srrkdhe.fsf@gmx.net> (message from Stephen Berman on Sat, 17 Aug 2019 17:39:41 +0200)
> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Cc: handa@gnu.org, cedric.chepied@gmail.com, 14461@debbugs.gnu.org,
> larsi@gnus.org
> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 17:39:41 +0200
>
> > If the latter, then the composition was
> > done in both cases, and you simply should find a better font if you
> > want these displayed more nicely.
>
> That indeed appears to be the case: when I change the font to DejaVu
> Sans (i.e. not the monospace version), then the 'a' sequence is
> displayed like the 'b' sequence, with both combining characters over the
> alphabetic character. This seems like a bug in the monospace font, but
> it also seems unlikely such a bug wouldn't have been noticed and fixed
> long ago, so I suspect there must be some other reason for the
> difference.
Does HarfBuzz's hb-view produce the same display with the monospaced
font? If so, I'd bet it's a problem with the font. You could ask
about this on the HarfBuzz mailing list.
If hb-view produces a different display, then it could be our problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-17 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-24 14:30 bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination Cédric Chépied
2019-08-15 4:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-15 9:01 ` Stephen Berman
2019-08-15 10:02 ` Cédric Chépied
2019-08-15 12:29 ` Stephen Berman
2019-08-16 1:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-16 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-17 12:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-17 13:50 ` Stephen Berman
2019-08-17 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-17 14:40 ` Stephen Berman
2019-08-17 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-17 15:39 ` Stephen Berman
2019-08-17 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-08-17 17:05 ` Stephen Berman
2019-08-17 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-17 18:11 ` Stephen Berman
2019-08-17 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-17 18:58 ` Stephen Berman
2019-09-07 9:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-15 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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