Re: [gedit-list] Problem: Unicode Combining Diacritical Marks

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Ken Beesley wrote:
>   Problem with Unicode Combining Diacritical Marks in gedit
>
> I'm using gedit 2.10.5, and when I try to use Combining Diacritical
> Marks, they are rendered badly.  E.g. the sequence
>
> 0+0041   LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
> 0+0301   COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT
>
> _should_ be rendered as an A with an acute accent on top of it.
> But, at least in my version of gedit, it's rendered as an acute accent
> (over nothing), followed by A.
It works correctly here (though I have a newer gedit/gtk etc)

Also note that gedit doesn't do anything special in that regard: all the 
magic happens in gtk and pango libraries, so that's where you need to look.


Paolo