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Re:Google Noto Fonts by shawnz on Thursday October 06, 2016 @04:03PM (#12655625)
> This is not necessarily the expected behaviour in other languages

But isn't it normally the operating system's responsibility to implement this, depending on the keyboard layout?

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Re:Google Noto Fonts by coldpie on Thursday October 06, 2016 @04:07PM (#12655653)
Operating system? Buddy, this is web development. We're reinventing the whole stack on top of HTML and JavaScript. Welcome to the future.
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Re:Google Noto Fonts by OJFord on Thursday October 06, 2016 @04:28PM (#12655827) 

    > But isn't it normally the operating system's
    > responsibility to implement this
Presumably the font has backticks, but they're (poorly) implementing this method of accenting in the demo web app to allow people to search for accented characters?
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Re:Google Noto Fonts by Normal_gaussian on Thursday October 06, 2016 @06:51PM (#12656789)
Nope.

It looks like "web fonts" in general are poorly implemented. You can recreate the problem with just a text box and font styling CSS.

If you look at some of my other comments in this tree you will see screenshots of the same text box with and without the local fonts installed. Presumably when local fonts are installed the OS handles everything, without the browser and the noto-fonts definition file gets in the way.

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