Umlaute, Punkte verschoben

[blackstone]

Ich stehe gerade auf dem Schlauch.

Ich nutze die Schrift Alegreya Sans und bei allen Umlauten sind die Punkte über den Umlauten verschoben. Die Schrift habe ich schon neu installiert. Das gleiche Ergebnis. Hat jemand eine Idee? Danke.

[lacerto]

I cannot reproduce this at least on Windows (tried Google Font version, non-variable fonts). Please ensure that you do not have both variable and non-variable version installed on the same computer. That produces all sorts of anomalies. 

[walt.farrell]

I think you're actually getting 2 umlauts, a normal one and a second one that is higher and shifted to the right. I've never seen that before.

What OS do you use, and which Affinity application and release? And what version of the font do you have installed?

[thomaso]

8 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

I think you're actually getting 2 umlauts, a normal one and a second one that is higher and shifted to the right.

Don't the larger ones seem to be squared ? (…whereas this font has circular umlauts only in every trait/weight).

@blackstone, it doesn't happen here. Like @lacerto I suspect a font conflict in your system.

[kenmcd]

14 hours ago, blackstone said:

Can you share this document?

Given that those dots are square - they appear to be from a different font.

They could be an old legacy dieresis character - which Alegreya does not have.
So a fall-back font is shown.

Could be a dieresiscomb character - which is set in another font.

I assume this text came from some older document which may have used the old way of entering diacritics.

Does this appear onscreen, or just upon printing?

If we can see the document, we will be able to determine what it is.

 

[lacerto]

An interesting font, anyway. At least I now found a way of reproduce this:

 

This could be produced if the regular combining diaresis key [which e.g. in Finnish keyboard can still be used to produce ä and ö and their uppercase versions Ä and Ö, while ä and ö (Ä and Ö) also exist as physical keys, and entering diaresis and ä or ö produces ¨ä and ¨ö], would be mapped to produce combining double acute key, instead, and used together with the u + umlaut key ü existing on German language keyboards.

EDIT: My apologizes for this post, which just added confusion. I did not zoom close enough to see that instead of a dotted dieresis and a double acute accent, the overlaid glyphs appeared to be a dotted and squared dieresis, as if from two different fonts, so perhaps an installation issue after all. But an interestingly varied font that can be used to produce many kinds of rare accented glyphs -- but not this one!