Nicholas Bodley wrote:

> It reminds me of far-worse messes I have seen in older versions of
> Opera when rendering Vietnamese. In those cases, the "rendering
> engine" (for the screen, not print) apparently changed fonts
> temporarily to render a character not in the principal font.
> Differences in typographic "color" (apparent blackness), style,
> and writing-line position all showed.

I've seen the same effect in languages that use macrons (such as
romanised Japanese), in Firefox on Linux. (I'm now using a Mac and
naturally the default fonts are very complete.)

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