Circumflex and diaresis misplaced on lowercase i

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not on other vowels, nor on capital I, it seems, nor with other accents: but see this:

dbenjaminmiller · Answer

Actually, it seems that it's more that the i itself is too far left:

khaledhosny · Answer

Can you provide the actual string, what application is this?

dbenjaminmiller · Answer

Not application-specific. This is an issue with the design of î and ï. Open up the fon

khaledhosny · Answer

I see, I thought it is an issue with mark positioning (which we don’t handle), but I n

dbenjaminmiller · Answer

Yep. I would say it is a pretty big QC issue in French, and should probably be fixed i

dbenjaminmiller · Answer

I just checked, and Type1 STIX is affected as well. So the issue is ancient.

khaledhosny · Answer

I’m fixing them. Though I don’t see the urgency given how long they have been broken.<

dbenjaminmiller · Answer

Fair if you don't, I suppose. I am a bit surprised that STI didn't catch them though</

dbenjaminmiller · Answer

Issue still present in the italic and bold italic. Slightly more subtle but same probl

khaledhosny · Answer

I did check these fonts and the accented i glyphs had the i at the same place as the d

dbenjaminmiller · Answer

Just took a look. you're right that the base glyph is not misplaced. In these fonts, i

khaledhosny · Answer

That is probably subjects. I checked Times (that ships with macOS) and it is very clos

dbenjaminmiller · Answer

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khaledhosny · Answer

Which why I said very close, not identical. I don’t think it has to be identically pla

dbenjaminmiller · Answer

Upon further inspection, the italic fonts seem fine in print.

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