GNU bug report logs - #44784
Combining accent is not combining

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Message #56 received at 44784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: rpluim <at> gmail.com, 44784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#44784: Combining accent is not combining
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 14:25:07 +0200

> Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
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> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:19:11 +0100
> Cc: 44784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> 
> Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Itʼs possible, since we do something similar for certain emoji
> > sequences. I question whether itʼs worth doing, though, it seems like
> > very much a rare condition, which is easily fixed by switching fonts.
> 
> I guess so.  I'm surprised that DejaVu Sans Mono is broken, though, so
> perhaps there is something else going on.
> 
> This reminds me of a related thing I've wondered about: We don't combine
> glyphs from different fonts, because this may look very ugly.  But has
> anybody tried doing it anyway?  It may not look worse than what some
> people are seeing today...

I think it depends on the two fonts and the characters to compose.  It
_could_ be much worse, there's no doubt about that.  Different fonts
use very different styles for the same glyphs.

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