From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: character composition seems much worse than before Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:18:34 +0900 Message-ID: References: <8339rco3w9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289215139 5185 80.91.229.12 (8 Nov 2010 11:18:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:18:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 08 12:18:55 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PFPkU-0002b8-O3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:18:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58285 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PFPkU-0003Ek-4P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:18:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35356 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PFPkM-0003Ed-FG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:18:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PFPkL-0005Oh-Hb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:18:46 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:40614) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PFPkJ-0005NX-TP; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:18:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailgate3.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.195]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id oA8BIe4m024510; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 20:18:40 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by mailgate3.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) id oA8BIes03613; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 20:18:40 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay61.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.64]) by vgate02.nec.co.jp (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oA8BIdAk019495; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 20:18:39 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.16] [10.29.19.16]) by relay61.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 20:18:34 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.96.148] [10.114.96.148]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 20:18:34 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 6B03152E1BB; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 20:18:34 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:58:49 +0100") Original-Lines: 23 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132449 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab writes: >> fails as I described before (most importantly, fails to combine >> characters at all when auto-composition-mode is enabled). > > Note that bistream vera contains very few characters, and none of the > combining characters. Perhaps the issue is that the two characters are > taken from different fonts? You are right! That explains things. It seems that since Dejavu is pretty much a superset of Bitstream Vera, the former should always be preferred if both are installed (I have both installed here); I wonder where that should be done... Thanks, -Miles -- Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.