GNU bug report logs - #39554
27.0.50; cairo not composing sequences

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: James Cloos <cloos <at> jhcloos.com>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:54:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 23292, 44784

Found in versions 24.5, 27.0.50

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Message #23 received at 39554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: James Cloos <cloos <at> jhcloos.com>
Cc: 39554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39554: 27.0.50; cairo not composing sequences
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 22:24:44 +0200

> From: James Cloos <cloos <at> jhcloos.com>
> Cc: 39554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 15:16:39 -0500
> 
> It does work correctly when i turn on variable-pitch-mode, which here is
> set to use DejaVu Serif.
> 
> But xft does fine with DejaVu Sans Mono.
> 
> This bug remains a regression and requires a fix.

I don't think I agree.  This font has problems with combining accents,
see this discussion:

  https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/harfbuzz/2019-August/007422.html
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