U+1133E GRANTHA VOWEL SIGN AA has general category Mc (Spacing Combining Mark), which means it's expected to follow a base character to which it is attached (section section 2.11 of version 13 of the Unicode Standard). In the absence of a base character, harfbuzz introduces the dotted circle, which is one of the options ('Show Hidden') mentioned in section 5.13 of the Unicode Standard. If there's a way to switch to a different fallback method, such as 'Simple Overlap', I'd very much like to know what it is.
As a work around, you could try attaching it to an invisible character, for example \symbol{"00A0}\symbol{"1133E}, assuming the font you're using has U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE. Other possibilities are U+2000 through U+200D, depending on availability. Cheers, David. ________________________________________ From: XeTeX <xetex-bounces+dmj=ams....@tug.org> on behalf of François Patte <francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 4:28 PM To: xetex@tug.org Subject: [XeTeX] how to suppress doted circle next to a glyph Bonjour, I want to use some glyph using the command \symbol. In some case I get a glyph with a dotted circle, how can I get the glyph without this circle? For instance, if I type \symbol{"1133E}, I get this as a result after compilation: 𑌾 with a dotted circle before. Is it possible to eliminate the circle? And how? Thank you. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)6 7892 5822 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte FSF https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/presenting-shoetool-happy-holidays-from-the-fsf