This is still broken in Ubuntu 18.04 bionic. It's notoriously annoying with text or filenames coming from OSX, which keeps diacritics separate from the character they're combined with, also for characters that have a distinct unicode code point for the combined variant.
** Also affects: ttf-bitstream-vera (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: fonts-noto (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: oxygen-fonts (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: fonts-tlwg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - Liberation Mono, Droid Sans Mono: Combining diacritics out of place + DejaVu, Liberation Mono, Noto Mono, Tlwg Mono, Oxygen Mono, Bitstream Vera Mono: Combining diacritics out of place -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/299158 Title: DejaVu, Liberation Mono, Noto Mono, Tlwg Mono, Oxygen Mono, Bitstream Vera Mono: Combining diacritics out of place To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-dejavu/+bug/299158/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs