Re: Cocoa emacs renders Unicode combining diacritics improperly

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.07.2012 um 01:23 schrieb Dan Maftei:

> Yeah, I wasn't sure how to interpret that. It is indeed ASCII 0x6e but what
> to make of 'Composed with the following character(s) "~"'?

It obviously reports that you tried to compose ñ, which failed. So you have the 
combining accent character and the n character side by side. How did you try to 
compose?

> 
> Since combining characters work in non-windowed mode, I tried to look at
> describe-char output running emacs -nw -Q but describe-char on combining
> characters causes a fatal error. >.< I sent a bug report.

In Terminal you are using Terminal's ability to display Unicode characters. GNU 
Emacs is just a guest there. It's different when it uses its own windows.

The NS variant uses a lot of Emacs software to, for example, render text. There 
is a set of patches and some extra source files available at 
/ftp:anonymous@ftp.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp:/ (in TRAMP notation). This set, 
emacs-24.1-mac-3.0.tar.gz, plus the released code for GNU Emacs 24.1  build, 
when configured --with-mac, together the "AppKit Emacs" which is much more 
integrated into Mac OS X, uses much more of Mac OS X than GNU Emacs. Try it! 
(You need to compile and install it yourself.)

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  Pete

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