Diacritics in Firefox

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Hi!I have diacritics in Firefox shifted to the right. How can I make them OK?

http://storage4.static.itmages.ru/i/12/0814/h_1344913801_7911629_fd24a5c4cf.png](http://itmages.ru/image/view/636606/fd24a5c4)

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Of course we allways want to know which level of openSUSE and when using a desktop (as in this case) which one and in this case which level of Firefox.

Do you have that in a particular website/page (link?), or allways (again, a link to one would be usefull, it is not that easy to find one with those rare characters)?

What should it look like? Should those ^ be direct unbder the o an the last e? Or are they also to low and should they be above them (ô and ê). When they should be below, what language are they used in (this to find the correct Unicode code points for them).

In short, a half line description of a problem is seldom enough to contain the three elements of a good problem description:

  1. what did you do;
  2. what dd you expect to happen;
  3. what happened instead.
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Firefox 14. openSUSE 12.1

The text: o̯equie̯

It happens everywhere.

The Unicode code of the diacritic is U+032F “COMBINING INVERTED BREVE BELOW”. It should be under the characters.

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Thanks for all the usefull information.

However I doubt that o̯equie̯ happens everywhere (I have seen more than a few web -pages in my live, but never encountered it). But it is now here on this very page and I use Firefox (14.0.1 on openSUSE 11.4) and it looks fine to me. The INVERTED BREVEs are exactly BELOW the first o and the last e.

Is this wrong when you look at this very page?

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http://storage7.static.itmages.ru/i/12/0814/h_1344938635_6510745_ede1897791.png](http://itmages.ru/)

Yes, it is wrong.

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This is how it looks here:
http://hcvv.home.xs4all.nl/Diacrit.jpeg
I looked inside the text (copy/pasting is working correct as you saw earlier), and all looks fine there. There is e.g. 6F CC AF where 6F is o and CC AF is UTF-8 encoded 032F. Well, must be correct because it shows correct here.

So it seems to be a rendering thing. You still did not tell which desktop you are using, I do not know if that is important. It could be something with the font that is used.

Is it also wrong when you use another browser (when you use KDE, you will have Konqueror thare at your fingertips)?

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I use liberation fonts, but I tried all fonts installed in my system. With some of them the diacritics is shifted not to the right but to the left.

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In Opera it is even worse:http://storage8.static.itmages.ru/i/12/0814/h_1344940427_1390498_810b2e38ea.png](http://itmages.ru/)

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When I look in Firefox > Preferences > Contents > Lettertypes and colours, I have simply sans-serif, which means IMHO that it will take a default sans-serif font. Thus I am not even sure what it uses.

Aand I have KDE btw. (still no answer from you).

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It seems to me that you are also using Liberation, which is default for openSUSE/KDE.

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Well, no it is not liberation in both your and my cases, this web site mandates usage of another font. But our fonts are the same. I also experience problems with other fonts as well, including Liberation.

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I messed up my fonts some time ago, Knurpht put me on the right track.
See http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-login/475042-sans-serif-only-bold-italic-kde-4-8-2-os-11-4-64-bits.html#post2460871 for font precedence.

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P.S.: your diacritics look normal here also - oS 11.4 KDE 4.8. I’m using Albany AMT as Firefox standard font.