[Paps-discuss] Combining characters not rendered properly

[<Tho...@si...>]

There are still problems with positioning and spacing of combining 
characters which are demonstrated with the attached example file; 
user paps --font "monospace 20" for a nice demo output to check 
on screen.

While combining characters seem to be handled well on the Thai line, 
they are not on the Latin letters:
* spacing is wrong; each combining character is followed by an extra space
* the position of six specific Latin combining accents (starting with 
  the grave accent U+0300) is wrong, it's not on top but rather on the 
  next line position! (Dov said in a mail last year this was a pango 
  problem - since you know the pango interface being used, it's 
  probably better the paps maintainers report the problem there than 
  if I would do it)

Also, the combining accents look somehow unmatched to the letter style, 
they seem to be too small and too thin, and poorly placed inside the 
base characters, rather than attached to them (on top or bottom, 
respectively).

Kind regards,
Thomas