[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 139399] Combining diacritics are not displayed properly

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139399

--- Comment #9 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to PhVerkerk from comment #8)
> Created attachment 168682 [details]
> Mac OS Noto and Liberation
> 
> Noto seems fine too.
> Liberation Sans gives a good result for i-common, but not for a-common.
> 
> OK for the statement that some fonts are badly designed. BUT, once upon a
> time, it worked better. It seems unlikely that the fonts got worse during an
> update of Qt or of LO. It is more probable that the font renderer became
> less efficient in rendering badly designed fonts (maybe sticking better to
> some official preconisations). Is it an improvement ?

That likely happened at the LibreOffice 5.3 release (experimental at 5.2) when
project implemented Harfbuzz and replaced most/all macOS CoreText for
consistent font shaping and layout cross platform.

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