Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Hi,
as far as I scanned the thread nobody analyzed the problem of the shifted 
umlaut diacritic.

You might look up „composed“ vs. „decomposed“ Unicode - e.g. OSX uses (or used 
to use in previous versions) decomposed Unicode, where always „composing“ 
diacritics are used, opposite to complete glyphs. (That caused me some headache 
when I read directory trees with a Python script and wrote TeX markup from it, 
while TeX didn’t understand composed Unicode glyphs. Of course Python’s Unicode 
handling can fix it, but you have to know about it.)

So, I guess some software on your way decomposed your umlauts, and your PDF 
viewer can’t cope with it - did you try another PDF viewer? Is the display the 
same on different OSs?
If it’s in all viewers, the problem may be again in your version of pango.

Greetlings, Hraban
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