bug#56237: 29.0.50; delete-forward-char fails to delete character

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
> Cc: 56237@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:54:42 +0530
> 
> [திங்கள் ஜூன் 27, 2022] Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Yes, composition of N characters can in general produce M glyphs,
> > where M can be smaller, equal, or greater than N.  It's a many-to-many
> > operation, and we cannot rely on getting the same number of glyphs as
> > the number of codepoints we compose.
> >
> > The idea is nevertheless correct (I had the same one), it just needs
> > some fine-tuning.  (And "C-x =" tries to solve a different problem:
> > how to match each glyph with a codepoint, and that problem is in
> > general insoluble, so it's a small wonder that it fails.)
> >
> 
> Right, thanks for the explanation.
> 
> > Please try the latest master, I hope delete-forward-char now behaves
> > better.
> 
> Thanks, it is much better now!  It doesn't fail on the cases that I had
> problems with so far.

Thanks for testing, and feel free to close whenever you feel satisfied ;-)