>>>>> "DE" == Doug Ewell <[email protected]> writes:
DE> There are so many different versions and configurations of Windows, and DE> so many available fonts and applications, that it's practically DE> meaningless to say that any character does or does not display DE> adequately "on Windows." I suspect the same is true for Mac and Linux. It very much is. I checked a few fonts. W/in families such as DejaVu, Liberation or Droid and using pango for rendering, some of the faces get the NFD version correct but most fail with the NFC version (it seems the OTF attachment point for ė is the same as for e in most of the faces; that causes the macron and dot to overlap). I was able to test some CFF fonts; The NFC and NFD versions of all of the Adobe fonts I was able to test have different dots for ė vs ė and therefore for ė̄ and ė̄. The version of Arial Unicode I was able to test has the same bug as most of the libre fonts in that the macron and dot overlap when rendering the NFC sequence. Even fonts which generate readable renderings for both NFC and NFD put the macron at different height about the baseline for each. NFD in general is still very much hit or miss. -JimC -- James Cloos <[email protected]> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
