New vert metrics check: Ensure accents on first line won't get clipped

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Open m4rc1e opened 6 years ago

m4rc1e commented 6 years ago

If the ascenders values are less than the y pos of accented marks, they clipped in primitive text editors.

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It should look

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m4rc1e commented 6 years ago

For some OS X system fonts, the Vietnamese gets clipped.

screen shot 2018-08-23 at 11 39 31 Lucida Grande vietnamese clipping

Just an idea, maybe we should make sure that glyphs belonging to Windows 1252 (or some other basic ocdepage) don't get clipped?