Re: [Devel] position of Combining Diacritical Marks

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The Glyph rectangle is there specified in a way that it
> does not applies to the last Glyph like described in the
> Unicode Spec but to the next one like used in console
> combiner maps.
> 
> Is this a bug in the font or should other encodings get
> special handling?

The glyph rectangle describes the real dimensions of the glyph.  You
probably mean the advance width, don't you?  You should use the
Unicode data base to check for the properties of the accent.  In case
it is described as `combining' simply don't apply the advance width.


    Werner