Rendering of ו עם חולם

tl;dr: Rendering of וֹ looks wrong in LibreOffice Writer in many fonts

I was trying to print a word with niqqud in LibreOffice Writer.  The word in
question has a חולם מלא.  In most fonts, that holam rendered above the ו and
slightly to its left, rather than directly above it, making it look more like a
ו with חולם חסר (a /vo/ sound) than like a ו being a mater lectionis (part
of a long /o/ sound of the preceding consonant).

This happened in every font I tried except for one.¹

Looking in unicode —

	$ unicode HOLAM | me
	U+05B9 HEBREW POINT HOLAM
	UTF-8: d6 b9 UTF-16BE: 05b9 Decimal: ֹ Octal: \02671
	 ֹ
	Category: Mn (Mark, Non-Spacing)
	Unicode block: 0590..05FF; Hebrew
	Bidi: NSM (Non-Spacing Mark)
	Combining: 19 (?)

	U+05BA HEBREW POINT HOLAM HASER FOR VAV
	UTF-8: d6 ba UTF-16BE: 05ba Decimal: ֺ Octal: \02672
	 ֺ
	Category: Mn (Mark, Non-Spacing)
	Unicode block: 0590..05FF; Hebrew
	Bidi: NSM (Non-Spacing Mark)
	Combining: 19 (?)

	U+FB4B HEBREW LETTER VAV WITH HOLAM
	UTF-8: ef ad 8b UTF-16BE: fb4b Decimal: וֹ Octal: \0175513
	וֹ
	Category: Lo (Letter, Other)
	Unicode block: FB00..FB4F; Alphabetic Presentation Forms
	Bidi: R (Right-to-Left)
	Decomposition: 05D5 05B9
	 
	U+05D5 HEBREW LETTER VAV
	UTF-8: d7 95 UTF-16BE: 05d5 Decimal: ו Octal: \02725
	ו
	Category: Lo (Letter, Other)
	Unicode block: 0590..05FF; Hebrew
	Bidi: R (Right-to-Left)

— I'm guessing that a וֹ (U+05D5 + U+05B9) should render with the point directly
above the letter, whereas וֺ (U+05D5 + U+05BA) should render with the point to
the north-northwest of the letter.  Is that right?  (If it is, then fonts that
render U+05B9 to the northwest of the letter should receive bug reports.)

Cheers,

Daniel

¹ Noto Sans Hebrew rendered it correctly.  (I'm not affiliated with the makers
of that font.)

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