From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cocoa emacs renders Unicode combining diacritics improperly Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:16:48 +0200 Message-ID: <89CCB64C-8963-45D5-866C-A6B208F007E2@Web.DE> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1342469820 11288 80.91.229.3 (16 Jul 2012 20:17:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:17:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Dan Maftei Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 16 22:17:00 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sqrj0-0001DH-UV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:16:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sqrj0-00023A-4w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:16:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56325) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sqriu-00022x-2L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:16:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sqrit-0001y0-0X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:16:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:51620) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sqris-0001xp-NO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:16:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.8] ([81.210.160.98]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb003) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0LgpIE-1Tcn7G3W9W-00nef3; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:16:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:HMT/vfI8gj5tqblUgXM82TgOc0bIgWfZ1+8m1/1R7Xl EUvYKNifZEAigtV5ED2772pXVa9LfMP+cc18Ay32gwjo5xsEDH 8A5OCU9wdbN/7P8xBCv03WgQ81o/xiSOAKMUYcHTsqhrvj+RQ7 AYWW14gwyxhsN56nrnOfBj5A9vJWbaQ2QvhdBROpXFJZIvYZ/A CTcfyKk9Tz4r1CDHRCNAg== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.15.4 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85889 Archived-At: Am 16.07.2012 um 19:09 schrieb Dan Maftei: > Pre-composed characters (e.g. 0xf1, =F1) render perfectly, but = combining > diacritics (e.g. n\x303) render the character oddly. Namely, the = diacritic > very miniscule, and is not placed directly above the main character = (but > not entirely to the left or right either). However, a single glyph IS > created, since C-f and C-b skip over the entire rendered character. Try again with a font having the COMBINING accents! You probably used an = inadequate font so that GNU Emacs had to use two different fonts. Which = you can check yourself by putting the text cursor on the basic character = or on the accent and typing each time C-u C-x =3D. For tests you could try to use Lucida Grande, a quite rich font. A good = mono-spaced font is DejaVu Sans Mono. Lucida Sans Typewriter from Java = is also a pretty good candidate. (Create a library in Font Book and = populate it with the TT fonts!) -- Greetings Pete Engineer: a mechanism for converting caffeine into designs