diff --git a/crates/epaint/src/text/font.rs b/crates/epaint/src/text/font.rs
index d675d28b8..eb5f4f79a 100644
--- a/crates/epaint/src/text/font.rs
+++ b/crates/epaint/src/text/font.rs
@@ -795,11 +795,6 @@ impl Font<'_> {
         s.chars().all(|c| self.has_glyph(c))
     }
 
-    /// Segment text into runs where each run uses a single font face.
-    ///
-    /// Grapheme clusters are never split across runs: if a combining mark
-    /// falls back to a different font than its base character, it stays
-    /// with the base character's font (the shaper will handle it).
     /// Segment text into runs where each run uses a single font face.
     ///
     /// Grapheme clusters are never split across runs: if a combining mark
diff --git a/crates/epaint/src/text/text_layout.rs b/crates/epaint/src/text/text_layout.rs
index 40f8025e7..2dfdabe99 100644
--- a/crates/epaint/src/text/text_layout.rs
+++ b/crates/epaint/src/text/text_layout.rs
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ fn layout_section(
 
             // Set buffer flags for paragraph boundary context.
             let mut flags = harfrust::BufferFlags::empty();
-            if seg_idx == 0 && run_idx == 0 {
+            if run_idx == 0 {
                 flags |= harfrust::BufferFlags::BEGINNING_OF_TEXT;
             }
             if run_idx + 1 == num_runs {