Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Configured features:
>> XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS 
>> NOTIFY
>> LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS 
>> GTK3 X11
>> MODULES THREADS LCMS2
>
> This seems to indicate your Emacs is built without libotf.  Is 
> that on
> purpose?  Can you try building with it?

It was not on purpose. I build emacs with libotf now and it's 
showing up in the configured features.
Unfortunately I still have the same behavior as before.