[DejaVu-fonts] Placement of diaeresis plus circumflex

[Christopher C. <crc...@ch...>]

No messages on this list since last August, and no new version for a
year now. I sincerely hope the project isn’t dead. I see there have been
some SVN commits. Why not release a new version of DejaVu just to show
that the project is alive?

I would like to ask one improvement to be made for the next version. In
a text I am working with and setting in DejaVu Sans, I frequently use ä̂,
a character consisting of U+00E4 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
plus U+0302 COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT. While the circumflex should
appear over the diaeresis, one is just placed on top of the other and
the result is illegible. Please tweak the spacing of these two
diacritics in combination.