Re: ucs-normalize and diacritics

[Robert Pluim]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 20:17:00 +0200
>> 
>> in
>> <https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/43757/combining-diacritics-not-combining-visually>
>> someone noted that â (that is LATIN SMALL LETTER A followed by
>> COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT) was not visually shown as â (LATIN SMALL
>> LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX). I can play around with the various
>> ucs-normalize-* functions and get that to happen, but Iʼm just curious
>> why it doesnʼt happen automatically (assuming it should, of course.
>
> It does display as â, but only if you use a font that supports both
> 'a' and '̂'.  Emacs can only compose characters that are displayed by
> the same font.

That works fine for me if I set the font used for ̂ as my default
font. Would it be worth allowing emacs to change the font of the
preceding character to match the diacritic and (re-)attempt
composition?

Thanks

Robert