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24.3; Display of combining characters on OS X after 24.3

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From: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
To: Pavel Iosad <pavel.iosad <at> ed.ac.uk>
Cc: 20752-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20752: 24.3;
 Display of combining characters on OS X after 24.3
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:09:23 +0900

>>>>> On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 11:27:41 +0100, Pavel Iosad <pavel.iosad <at> ed.ac.uk> said:

>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20537
>> 
>> Actually, I couldn't reproduce the bug you described with the
>> trunk.  So, I think this is a duplicate of Bug#20537.

> Thanks! This seems about right. The bug goes away (checked with
> c941d47) with most other fonts. (This solves my immediate problem,
> of course.)

> It is still there with DejaVu Sans Mono. I've tried some other fonts
> I have installed and most of them seem to work fine, so I presume it
> *is* a font issue after all. Thanks for your help!

Actually, "b̈b̈b̈b̈b̈" in DejaVu Sans Mono is displayed strangely
(just like overstriking) even with TextEdit.app on OS X 10.10.
I don't know which is wrong, the font data or the layout engine in the
Core Text framework.

Anyway, I close the bug.

				     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
				mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp

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