Re: Consonant allophones in Minza

Hi!

Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
>...
> A word of warning: in MediaWiki you must always put a zero-
> width joiner character ‍ between a precomposed i with a
> superscript diacritic and a combining subscript diacritic,
> or the engine will 'normalize' it into a dotted i
> precomposed with a subscript diacritic and a combining
> superscript diacritic, which of course means that with most
> fonts you get the dot of the i disturbing the superscript
> diacritic! So you should write e.g. ī‍̣-- i.e.
> ī‍̣ -- to get the right thing.
>...
Just a short clarification:

The behaviour is not an error of MediaWiki, but the usual, correct
Unicode normalisation.  If you get bad results, then either your
browser or your font is broken, not MediaWiki.

So I would recommend to *not* use a ‍ to hack-fix a broken
behaviour of a browser or font, but instead to use a working browser
or font, or if that is out of the question (for whatever reason), live
with a distorted display, and/or inform the maintainers of the browser
or font of not being Unicode compliant.

**Henrik

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