Browser support for displaying the unicode block "Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols" #4163
Description
For pages to see them tested, view the following in various browsers:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_Diacritical_Marks_for_Symbols
- https://unicode.org/charts/nameslist/n_20D0.html or https://unicode.org/charts/nameslist/c_20D0.html (The latter, a chart page, will try to popup the former, because pages are actually intended as frames to be displaed together in the frameset at https://unicode.org/charts/nameslist/ . The fact that it took me some poking around to realize this, after I found the "n_20D0.html" page via a search engine, nicely illustrates one of the main problems with frames.)
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.