Comment 6 for bug 299158

I’m on Ubuntu 13.04, for me, pango-view --font='Liberation Mono' test-diac renders incorrectly (with the acute over e, not a). It’s not only gnome-terminal that is affected — gedit, mousepad, xterm, firefox too.

Precomposed letters with accents are a workaround, but it only works for Latin and Greek letters. For Cyrillic and other scripts, precomposed forms do not exist in Unicode. For consistency, I prefer using combining accents exclusively, and reporting any bugs that arise.

I believe, when a character is absent in a font, pango takes it from another font that does have it. Does this behavior extend to combining diacritics? If so, reproducibility of this bug depends on which other fonts are installed, and which font gets selected to provide the incorrectly positioned combining acute accent as fallback.

How would I go about tracking down that font?