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bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combinati
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Stephen Berman |
Subject: |
bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Aug 2019 19:05:20 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:44:33 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> Cc: handa@gnu.org, cedric.chepied@gmail.com, 14461@debbugs.gnu.org,
>> larsi@gnus.org
>> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 17:39:41 +0200
>>
>> > If the latter, then the composition was
>> > done in both cases, and you simply should find a better font if you
>> > want these displayed more nicely.
>>
>> That indeed appears to be the case: when I change the font to DejaVu
>> Sans (i.e. not the monospace version), then the 'a' sequence is
>> displayed like the 'b' sequence, with both combining characters over the
>> alphabetic character. This seems like a bug in the monospace font, but
>> it also seems unlikely such a bug wouldn't have been noticed and fixed
>> long ago, so I suspect there must be some other reason for the
>> difference.
>
> Does HarfBuzz's hb-view produce the same display with the monospaced
> font? If so, I'd bet it's a problem with the font. You could ask
> about this on the HarfBuzz mailing list.
>
> If hb-view produces a different display, then it could be our problem.
Executing this:
$ hb-view /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf -u 'U+061, U+301, U+302'
displays just 'a' with an acute accent over it, i.e. the circumflex is
not displayed at all (unlike Emacs, which display the circumflex to the
right of the a + acute accent grapheme).
Steve Berman
- bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination, (continued)
- bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/17
- bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination, Stephen Berman, 2019/08/17
- bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/17
- bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination, Stephen Berman, 2019/08/17
- bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/17
- bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination, Stephen Berman, 2019/08/17
- bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/17
- bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination,
Stephen Berman <=
- bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/17
- bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination, Stephen Berman, 2019/08/17
- bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/17
- bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination, Stephen Berman, 2019/08/17
bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/15