From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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 19:05:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rxjk9in.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wofbn6e6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:44:33 +0300")
On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:44:33 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> 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.
Executing this:
$ hb-view /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf -u 'U+061, U+301, U+302'
displays just 'a' with an acute accent over it, i.e. the circumflex is
not displayed at all (unlike Emacs, which display the circumflex to the
right of the a + acute accent grapheme).
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-17 17:05 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
2019-08-17 17:05 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
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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