On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>wrote:

>
> Am 17.07.2012 um 00:15 schrieb Dan Maftei:
>
> > Notice: the combining diacritic is rendered extremely small, and
> > off-center. It doesn't even look like a tilde in the final glyph.
>
> This "combined diacritic" is actually LATIN SMALL LETTER N. That's what
> the *Help* buffer says. You can also see this when reading the "preferred
> charset" value.
>

Yeah, I wasn't sure how to interpret that. It is indeed ASCII 0x6e but what
to make of 'Composed with the following character(s) "~"'?

Since combining characters work in non-windowed mode, I tried to look at
describe-char output running emacs -nw -Q but describe-char on combining
characters causes a fatal error. >.< I sent a bug report.


> How is it when you launch GNU Emacs without customisation? This can be
> achieved from the command line as "<path to>/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
> -Q &".
>

I always test such things without loading .emacs before posting to mailing
lists. :-)  So, same results.


>
> With Cmd-T the Mac OS X font chooser comes up and you can select a font
> and also its size. C-h H produces the *HELLO* buffer with a few interesting
> scripts…
>
>
As I mentioned, other fonts produce the same results, including the ones
you mentioned (e.g. Lucida Grande). Further, the default font, Monaco, has
support for combining characters (I tested in TextEdit).

Not sure what I'm to do with the *HELLO* buffer. Everything is rendered
properly. I imagine most diacritics were displayed on pre-composed
characters (I only checked a few).

Cheers,
Dan