bug#20222: 25.0.50; Wrong horizontal position of combining characters

[Stefan Kangas]

Orivej Desh <orivej@gmx.fr> writes:

>> >  --with-xft --without-libotf --without-m17n-flt --with-x-toolkit=gtk2
>> 
>> What happens if you build with libotf?
>
> Thanks! I rebuilt Emacs with m17n and libotf, and now Ezra SIL and Linux
> Libertine look perfect. (But only if multiple composing characters are
> entered in some order that seems logical: 05E9 shin + 05C2 sin dot +
> 05B9 holam compose into one character, yet shin + holam does not compose
> with the following sin dot.) Cardo font, on the other hand, became even
> more broken, with more composing characters shifted to the right. (I
> think it was m17n that helped, because only Linux Libertine is available
> in OTF, and also rendering of TTF variant of Linux Libertine got fixed.)

It seems to me that the original issue is solved by building with
libotf.  Is there anything more to do here?  If I don't hear anything
else within a couple of weeks, I'll assume this is fixed and close the
bug.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas