Several (mostly monospace) fonts from the font set contain incorrect spacing definition for "Combining Diacritical Marks". These characters should have zero space and should render above the previous letter, not above the forthcoming. As the problem affects only some fonts, I guess that it is a font problem. Fonts affected (package): Courier (font-bitstream-*-1.0.0) Luxi Mono (font-bh-ttf-1.0.0, font-bh-*-1.0.0) Misc Fixed (font-misc-misc-1.0.0) Misc Fixed Wide (font-misc-misc-1.0.0) Schumacher Clean (font-schumacher-misc-1.0.0) Fonts not affected: Lucida Sans Typewriter Fonts from other vendors, that are affected as well: Courier New Efont Fixed Efont Fixed Biwidth Liberation Mono Monospace Nimbus Mono L URW Chancery L How to reproduce: Paste following text with selected font: o̍g Correct: accent above o Incorrect: accent above g
I've reported this as affecting Liberation Mono, opening a bug on Red Hat's tracker. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487581 I don't think it's likely that Courier New will be fixed, given that it's closed-source and upstream hasn't been distributing it for nearly seven years now. The current version of Free Mono in Ubuntu Intrepid is affected, but upstream seems to have already dealt with this problem: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?22994 Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Roman is affected as well (ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-7); there doesn't appear to be a bug tracker for the issue, but there's a mailing list. There hasn't been a release in some time, but perhaps they'll respond to a bug report: http://www.gnome.org/fonts/#Reporting_Problems
Are these fonts still broken?
Testing in openSUSE 11.4 GTK+ font selector, only font "Monospace" is now OK (i. e. displays "óg"). All other fonts are still broken in three ways: oǵ (combining diacritical mark has zero space, but renders above forthcoming letter) o'g (combining diacritical mark has non-zero space and renders as an ordinary character) 'og (completely broken spacing of combining diacritical mark in URW Chancery L) Note that this type of bug affects not only Latin characters. For example Devanagari combining "ce" (letter "ca" + combining "e": चे) renders incorrectly in combination with several fonts in openSUSE: all *.pcf fonts Efont (all variants) MUTT CleanrlyU Wide It seems that Devanagari letters used in combination with these fonts use the same source, as the glyph is always the same.
Mass closure: This bug has been untouched for more than six years, and is not obviously still valid. Please reopen this bug or file a new report if you continue to experience issues with current releases.
Re-tested just now: Courier: still broken Luxi Mono: still broken Misc Fixed: broken Misc Fixed Wide: still broken
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