Comment 9 for bug 640845

Alex Valavanis wrote on 2010-09-17:
> I'm not too familiar with how font rendering is actually performed. Can anyone help?

Don't know how typesetting of the accented characters is done in LaTeX, but wrt to Inkscape: if a certain font does not contain the specific Unicode symbol / character, the font backend substitutes it from a different (fallback) font (if available) -> the reporter should probably first verify whether the TTF files of the mentioned fonts actually contain those Unicode glyphs.

An quick way to test is to use gtk-demo, and preview the same words with 'Pickers > Fonts' (see attached screenshot with GTK+/X11 2.24.13, fontconfig 2.9.0, freetype 2.4.10, pango 1.30.1, and the cmr10 font downloaded from [1]).
Fontforge can also be used to view the list of available glyphs of a font - it doesn't show any accented characters either for e.g. the TTF font cmr10.

Likely the ComputerModern Unicode fonts [2] could be used as an alternative (they do include lots of accented characters).

Proposing to close as 'Invalid' for Inkscape.
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[1] <http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/ttf-lyx>
[2] <http://cm-unicode.sourceforge.net/>