bug#3174: NS: greek glyph rendering incoherent

[Alan Third]

Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:

> David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> 2.  The display of Greek is off.  The default font won't display
>>> accented
>>> characters at all.  The font I've been using,
>>> -apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-m-120-iso10646-1, does
>>> display
>>> all of the characters, but the accented ones are a different size,
>>> and the
>>> Greek in general looks like a comic book.
>>
>> Hmm.  With M-x view-hello-file, I can see them (in Monaco).
>> Switching to text-mode will make it use Lucida Grande (the default),
>> but, as shown below, this works for me.  I started Aquamacs with -q
>> (e.g., see Help->Diagnose menu).  Could you try that too, just so we
>> make sure we're talking about the same "default font"?
>>
>> As for the actual glyphs and also the accented alpha in the example, I
>> fully agree: they're ugly, both in Monaco and in Lucida.
>>
>> I think there's something wrong...  I'm attaching a screenshot of
>> Emacs/22 (Carbon), where the greek glyphs are rendered coherently.
>>
>> The last screenshot shows Emacs 23 (NS) again, started with -Q and in
>> the default font.  There, the accented alpha isn't rendered at all.
>
> Hi David, this all looks fine to me in Emacs 25, and the NS port now
> uses the Mac port font backend, so I'd be surprised if these issues
> still persist.
>
> Am I OK to close this bug?

I'm going to close this now. As always, feel free to re-open if you're
still seeing it.
-- 
Alan Third