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24.5; Combining characters do not reliably combine

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Message #32 received at 23292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alexis <flexibeast <at> gmail.com>
Cc: hdfssk <at> gmail.com, handa <at> gnu.org, 23292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23292: 24.5; Combining characters do not reliably combine
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:21:21 +0300

> From: Alexis <flexibeast <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org>, hdfssk <at> gmail.com, 23292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 19:03:15 +1000
> 
> My apologies, i accidentally used a non -Q instance to test 
> this. :-/ In a -Q instance, it turns out that DejaVu Sans Mono 
> (Book) /does/ compose visually:

Can you show a screenshot?

> Composed with the following character(s) "̷" using this font: 
>   xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans 
>   Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-13-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 
> by these glyphs: 
>   [0 1 111 82 8 0 8 8 1 nil] [0 1 823 703 0 0 8 8 1 [-8 0 0]] 
> 
> Sorry!
> 
> However, Inconsolata-g definitely doesn't compose visually.
> 
> Interestingly, when i use `describe-char' on the 'o', i'm told 
> that the glyph is sourced from Inconsolata-g, but when i use it on 
> the '/', it tells me it's sourced from Gentium ....

Something with your fonts and fontsets, I guess.  If you force Emacs
to use Inconsolata-g for "̷", does the composition happen?

Thanks.

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