I installed the Crisa Regular font [1] (font name is “Crisa”) and tried to type some zbalermorna [2] (an abugida) into Emacs.

However, the positions of the vowels are not correct, as shown in the attached screenshot obtained in emacs -Q.
The vowels should be right above the constants.

The correct rendering can be seen at this web page [3] (using a decent modern Web browser).
I can confirm other applications using the system GUI toolkit works, e.g. TextEdit.app.

[1] https://github.com/jackhumbert/zbalermorna/tree/master/fonts/
[2] https://jackhumbert.github.io/zbalermorna/
[3] https://jackhumbert.github.io/zbalermorna/examiner/#crisa-regular



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