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Text with many diacritic marks are not displayed correctly in posts
When posting this question, I noticed a difference between editor's preview and the post's final render.
When editing, the preview correctly shows the Zalgo Text:
But after the post is saved, it's rendered in the browser like this:
Note that part of the text (the diacritics at the top and bottom) is not displayed.
I've tested in the following OS's/browsers, and the problem occurs in all of them:
- Windows 10 Home 64 bits: Chrome 90.0.4430.93, Firefox 88.0 and Edge 90.0.818.49
- iPhone 8/iOS 14.4.2: Chrome 87.0.4280.163 and Safari
- MacOS Catalina 10.15.7: Chrome 90.0.4430.93, Safari 14.0.3 and Firefox 88.0
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The solution here is as for many of these edge cases with weird Unicode: don't do that.
The difference here is minor enough that I had trouble picking it out in your screenshots. Given that this isn't exactly real-world usage, I'm marking this [status-declined] - if there are issues with display for real-world usage of Unicode/diacritics/etc we'll try our best to fix them, but this... is not.
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