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I have some copied text from a pdf which renders like this with my current font:

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I know I could use a different font that handles Unicode characters better, but I would rather find a function to compose the two characters into one character:

a" --> ä
a° --> å
o¨ --> ö
etc

Is there such a function?

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  • I don't think your issue is related to your font, accents are in separate glyphs in your example.
    – user12563
    Commented Jan 14, 2019 at 19:30
  • @DoMiNeLa10 I'm not sure how it works, but in the pdf the glyphs seem to be combined to show one character, such as ä or å. But the answer from Stefan solved it, anyway.
    – trmdttr
    Commented Jan 15, 2019 at 8:19
  • It could be just clever character positioning, I've seen things of this sort in PDFs.
    – user12563
    Commented Jan 15, 2019 at 13:37

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I think you want to

M-x ucs-normalize-NFC-region RET
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