bug#3174: NS: greek glyph rendering incoherent

[Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>]

David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:

>> 2.  The display of Greek is off.  The default font won't display
>> accented
>> characters at all.  The font I've been using,
>> -apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-m-120-iso10646-1, does
>> display
>> all of the characters, but the accented ones are a different size,
>> and the
>> Greek in general looks like a comic book.
>
> Hmm.  With M-x view-hello-file, I can see them (in Monaco).
> Switching to text-mode will make it use Lucida Grande (the default),
> but, as shown below, this works for me.  I started Aquamacs with -q
> (e.g., see Help->Diagnose menu).  Could you try that too, just so we
> make sure we're talking about the same "default font"?
>
> As for the actual glyphs and also the accented alpha in the example, I
> fully agree: they're ugly, both in Monaco and in Lucida.
>
> I think there's something wrong...  I'm attaching a screenshot of
> Emacs/22 (Carbon), where the greek glyphs are rendered coherently.
>
> The last screenshot shows Emacs 23 (NS) again, started with -Q and in
> the default font.  There, the accented alpha isn't rendered at all.

Hi David, this all looks fine to me in Emacs 25, and the NS port now
uses the Mac port font backend, so I'd be surprised if these issues
still persist.

Am I OK to close this bug?
-- 
Alan Third