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Marjorie
Marjorie

Reputation: 71

Display issue with diacritics for a phonetic alphabet

I need to write unicode characters and diacritics in a web page. They are part of a phonetic alphabet designed for romanist studies (the Bourciez Alphabet). My problem is a display issue, I believe: the character codes are all OK in unicode, but some diacritics are not displayed as expected. Most notably, the 'COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE BELOW' (U+035C) does not display as expected: it appears not under the 2 letters to which it is supposed to apply, but under the last of those letters and the next character (another letter, or a space).

Here for instance, the combining diacritic should be under the first 2 "a" characters, but it is displayed under the 2nd and 3rd "a"; yet you can see that the combination has been applied to the first 2 "a"s, because they are displayed in smaller size than the normal "a"s: result of combining double breve below

I'm using fonts which have those characters (I tried Arial MS Unicode, Gentium, and Lucida Sans Unicode). They all have the same display issue.

Any idea how I can solve this issue?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 74

Answers (1)

jota
jota

Reputation: 3

I'm having trouble reproducing the problem. Connecting two characters with the breve diacritic seems to be working for me. First I enter the first character of the pair, then the U+035C character, finally the second and it shows as follows.

sample image

Upvotes: 0

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