[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113141] RTL: Diacritics appear with dotted circle

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113141

--- Comment #8 from Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> ---
(In reply to Maxim Monastirsky from comment #7)
> (In reply to Khaled Hosny from comment #5)
> > That is by design. If a combining mark is at the start of the text, it is
> > displayed over a dotted circle since a combining mark needs something to
> > combine with. You can put a space or no breaking space before the mark if
> > the dotted circle is undesired.
> Isn't it against the referenced Unicode standard, as it says that if a
> nonspacing mark occurs as the first character in the text, it should be
> handled as if it had a no-break space before it?

You will need to raise that with HarfBuzz developers where this behavior is
implemented.

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