Subject: Re: bug#11072: Display of glyphless non-spacing modifiers via a static composition

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:13:34 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Kenichi Handa <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:13:16 +0100
> 
> >> As that character is a non-spacing modifier, we display it
> >> with a static composition, and a glyph in a static
> >> composition are displayed by a blank rectangle if no font is
> >> available.  This is because a hex code makes the resulting
> >> display of composition (several glyphs may occupy a single
> >> column) unreadable.
> >> 
> >> It may be possible to change the current code to use a hex
> >> code displaying if a composition contains just one glyph and
> >> that glyph has no font, but it may be for 24.2.
> >
> > So this bug will wait for after Emacs 24.1 release to be fixed.
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> Hi Eli,
> 
> No update on this bug in 7 years.  Has this been fixed in the
> intervening time?

It seems so: I now see a box with a hex code.

Closing.