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23.0.60; wrong position of accents in X11

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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 829 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#829: 23.0.60; wrong position of accents in X11
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:18:30 +0200

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Am 18.09.2008 um 21:03 schrieb Chong Yidong:

>> I have a file named
>>
>> 	RGB äöüæÆÜÖÄ.txt
>
> I don't see any bug here; the accents are displayed on the top of the
> character.  Could you check again with latest CVS and see if the  
> problem
> persists?


What you cite (and see) is what I wrote as the *text* of the file's  
name. I cannot copy and paste the *representation* GNU Emacs then  
chose – except as a photograph/screen-shot.

With GNU Emacs from one or two days ago it looks a bit better, like  
this:

[Emacs Umlaute.png (application/applefile, inline)]

[Emacs Umlaute.png (image/png, inline)]

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As you can see it uses for R, G, B, SPC, æ, Æ, ., t, and x the  
correct font:

          display: by this font (glyph code)
    x:-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-10-100-75-75-m-60- 
iso10646-1 (#x52)

For ä I get:

          display: composed to form "ä" (see below)

Composed with the following character(s) "¨" using this font:
  x:-mutt-clearlyu-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-123-iso10646-1
by these glyphs:
  [0 1 97 97 7 1 7 7 0 nil]
  [0 1 776 776 0 0 5 14 -12 [-5 3 0]]

Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: LATIN SMALL LETTER A
  general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)

(The non-spacing ¨ is faked here with a spacing one. The *Help*  
buffer uses the COMBINING DIAERESIS U+0308 from ClearlyU. Lucida  
Typewriter does not have this glyph.)

It would be better GNU Emacs would compose the de-composed characters  
and then use the glyphs from the default font.

--
Greetings

  Pete

Give a man a fish, and you've fed him for a day. Teach him to fish,  
and you've depleted the lake.

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