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Browser support for displaying the unicode block "Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols" #4163

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jcappell opened this issue Apr 3, 2018 · 0 comments

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jcappell commented Apr 3, 2018

For pages to see them tested, view the following in various browsers:

For what the marks are supposed to look approximately like, see https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U20D0.pdf .

A user's system fonts or provided webfonts, of course, need to include the necessary glyphs, but that is not sufficient; browsers vary widely on support: In my testing on one machine just now, I see Firefox has almost complete support, Safari supports about half of the marks, and Edge (running in a VM) displays all of the marks but positions most of the marks incorrectly.

Admittedly, it might be difficult to write an automated test for this.

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