From 77e256763c17531639904801b823d1af2bba06fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20Ekl=C3=B6f?= Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 11:29:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] readme: unicode-combining: mention when we render the decomposed version --- README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2a289d85..08a9fdb1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -287,6 +287,11 @@ When rendering a pre-composed character, we are rendering a single glyph only and thus it is guaranteed to look the way the font designer intended it to. +Note that foot currently will choose to render the decomposed form +**if** the pre-composed character **does not** exist in the primary +font, **and** both the decomposed characters **do**. In all other +cases, the pre-composed character is preferred. + Still, if you do not want this, you can disable pre-composing at **compile time** with `-Dunicode-precompose=false`.