Failure to combine Lithuanian diacritics and accents

[clockworkpc]

Ubuntu combines Lithuanian diacritics and accents, however Ubuntu Condensed and Ubuntu Mono fail to do so.

I discovered this in Atom whilst writing a program for analysing Lithuanian verbs, which include both diacritics and accents: Verbalyser

A workaround is to install either Liberation Mono or Cousine Mono, both of which handle the combination thereof, for Ubuntu Mono to fall back on.

As things stand, for anyone wishing to do anything serious in a Mono font with Lithuanian, I recommend either Liberation or Cousine.

Alternatively, the Noto font family could be good too.
https://www.google.com/get/noto/

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Hello, thank you for the report. We'd like to eventually fix this in the font itself.

Please can you help by:

  (1) copying and pasting the text string showing the problem
  (2) attaching a screenshot showing how it behaves incorrectly
  (3) attach a pictures showing how it *should* look (either drawn, or screenshot of a different font where it renders correctly)

[clockworkpc (clockworkpc)]

The attached screenshot is from https://fonts.google.com/?query=ubuntu.
You can see that Ubuntu Mono and Ubuntu Condensed display lower-case "e" with a dot (ė), however fail to combine it with an accent.
(Unicode value 0117 combined with Unicode value 0303, e.g. \u0117\u0303)

By contrast Ubuntu font does so without a problem.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

clockworkpc: Thank you for the screenshot. Please paste the *exact* string you are testing with, ideally in the context of real-world word/sentence. This will enable reproducing.

[clockworkpc (clockworkpc)]

The extract string is this:

ė̃

As I showed in the screenshot, this is the exact string that Ubuntu Monospace did not display correctly.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

This screenshot is from Gnome-Terminal rendering \u0113\0303 with Ubuntu Mono. Please could you try the same and upload a screenshot.

[clockworkpc (clockworkpc)]

OS: Ubuntu 16.04
Gnome-terminal
Font: Ubuntu Monospace

Screenshot attached.

In Gnome Terminal it works fine, although it would be preferable to see a small gap between the diacritic and the accent.

[clockworkpc (clockworkpc)]

However...

in Atom Text Editor and on the Google Font page I linked to in my original post, the diacritic is not combined with the accent.

In Atom Text Editor, you can see:
1. The accent is laid over the diacritic.
2. The text editor fetches the letter ė from another font family in three of the five instances.

I will take this up with the Atom project too, but just letting you know.

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