GNU bug report logs - #14461
24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode combination

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 14461 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Cédric Chépied <cedric.chepied <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#14461: 24.3.50; bad display for 'space' + (U+0336) unicode
 combination
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:03:31 -0700

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net> writes:

> ... I assume combining characters are always displayed after a space
> instead of over it -- at least that's what I see with e.g. U+0301
> (COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT) and U+0302 (COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT).  That
> makes sense to me (otherwise, you couldn't visually distinguish e.g. the
> sequence 'aU+0301U+0302' from the sequence 'aU+0301 U+0302') and I would
> guess some Unicode standard prescribes it.

Sounds logical.  Anybody know for sure?

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