The top-level loop in gtkwin.c which draws text was expecting that the
right way to draw a printing character plus combining characters was
to overprint them one by one on top of each other. This is an OK
assumption for X bitmap fonts, but in Pango, it works very badly -
most obviously because asking Pango to display a combining char on its
own causes it to print a dotted circle representing the base char, but
also because surely there will be character combinations where Pango
wants to do something more sophisticated than just printing them each
at a standard offset, and it would be a shame not to let it.
So I've moved the previous overprinting loop down into the x11font
subclass of the unifont mechanism. The top-level gtkwin.c drawing code
now calls a new method unifont_draw_combining, which in the X11 case
does the same loop as before, but in the Pango case, just passes a
whole base+combinings string to Pango in one go and lets it do the
best job it can.
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