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Accents or diacritical marks #6

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hporten opened this issue Jul 22, 2024 · 0 comments
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Accents or diacritical marks #6

hporten opened this issue Jul 22, 2024 · 0 comments

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hporten commented Jul 22, 2024

I am not a font expert but I have the feeling as if something is wrong with how glyphs with accents and diacritical marks are getting rendered. Not at all, in fact. A letter like U-umlaut gets displayed as an empty space, for example. This can be see online with https://fontdrop.info or even easier with the View all Glyphs option of https://befonts.com/thicccboi-sans-font-family.html.

As a workaround, I tried to use a composition with the documented diacritics for Western languages. For example, U+308 or decimal 776 (COMBINING DIAERESIS) can be seen in the TTF files. So I tried to render the last name Müller by combining the letter u with the HTML entity ̈:

<html>
<head>
<style>
@font-face {
  font-family: thicccboi;
  src: url("https://.....THICCCBOI-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>Mu&#776;ller</div>
<div style="font-family: thicccboi">Mu&#776;ller</div>
</body>
</html>

This works when using the browsers default font but again gives an empty space with the THICCCBOI font:

Müller
M ller

Hence, I suspect that the vector data for accents, umlauts, etc. is present but embedded into the font in a wrong way.
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