[XeTeX] Diacritic marks in various fonts

[Peter Baker]

On 6/23/11 1:57 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
> Am 23.06.2011 um 19:11 schrieb Peter Baker:
>
>> I can't reproduce the problem, but I'm using the CVS version of 
>> Junicode.
>
> This could be true! Believe me that I could reproduce the problem (in 
> a XeLaTeX file, with Unicode font and text encoding). I then switched 
> from Junicode to other fonts. Some showed the OPEN BOXes as well. So I 
> produced a test case with all upper and lower case letters, in order 
> to see if at least something worked – and this worked for all! (I 
> tested with FreeSerif.) I then tested this complete test case with 
> more fonts. And suddenly Junicode showed all letters with a DOT BELOW, 
> upright or italic.
>
> I think my font cache was polluted. First tries to fetch only the two 
> glyphs failed, so the OPEN BOX characters were displayed. With all 52 
> characters the fetch succeeded, the cache was updated, and now it just 
> works.
>
These computers have gotten too darn complicated, I say!

Peter