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False; diacritics commonly used in the real-world such as "´¨`" fit inside the same space as the characters, this successive chain of diacritics is never used in real-world texts except for very few obscure cases. Plus the implementation of UTF8 should include the line-height required for the correct displaying of the character if they really believe the displaying of obscure characters is more important than usability.


UTF-8 is an encoding and has no say on how a given character should be rendered.


What is obscure for you is not obscure for someone else.


Are you implying Thai diacritics are not "commonly used in the real world"?




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