bug#3325: 23.0.93; Unexpected font for composed character

[Stefan Kangas]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:
>
>> This still happens in Emacs 25, but from the above description it
>> doesn't really sound like a bug. It's Emacs working around the fact that
>> the font doesn't have the glyph.
>>
>>> It may be good that Emacs knows that `u'+U+308 = `ü', but
>>> that kind of normalization is not yet supported.
>>
>> I'm changing this bug report to wishlist.
>
> If I try this (i.e., load a file with ü in it, or say (insert ?u
> #x308)), I get the following:
>
>              position: 1 of 2 (0%), column: 0
>             character: u (displayed as u) (codepoint 117, #o165, #x75)
>               charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
> code point in charset: 0x75
>                script: latin
>                syntax: w      which means: word
>              category: .:Base, L:Left-to-right (strong), a:ASCII, l:Latin, 
> r:Roman
>              to input: type "C-x 8 RET 75" or "C-x 8 RET LATIN SMALL LETTER U"
>           buffer code: #x75
>             file code: #x75 (encoded by coding system utf-8)
>               display: composed to form "ü" (see below)
>
> Composed with the following character(s) "̈" using this font:
>   xfthb:-PfEd-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-25-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
> by these glyphs:
>   [0 1 117 190 15 2 13 19 0 nil]
>
> Character code properties: customize what to show
>   name: LATIN SMALL LETTER U
>   general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)
>   decomposition: (117) ('u')
>
> And the display looks correct.  So it seems like this has been fixed
> now?

Since there has been no further update here within 40 weeks, I'm going
to assume yes and close this bug report.

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Best regards,
Stefan Kangas