About the Shift of Diacritical Marks When Adjusting letter-spacing in Safari

YusukeS
YusukeS Posts: 2
in Font Technology

This is my first post.

This post relates to the Marshallese language.

When adjusting letter-spacing to display text in a web browser on Safari for Mac and iOS, a diacritics shift to the right.


The issue occurred with the following characters:

L̦ (U+004C, U+0326)

M̦ (U+004D, U+0326)

O̦ (U+004F, U+0326)

 

This issue can be reproduced even with simple HTML like this, and it does not occur on Windows.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Letter Spacing Example</title>
    <style>
        .normal-spacing {
            letter-spacing: normal;
        }
        .wide-spacing {
            letter-spacing: 12px;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <h1 class="normal-spacing">L̦M̦O̦</h1>
    <h1 class="wide-spacing">L̦M̦O̦</h1>
</body>
</html>
Are there any similar issues?

Also, should I report this to Reporting Bugs | WebKit ?

If you have any additional information, please let me know.

Comments

  • John Hudson
    John Hudson Posts: 3,186
    It definitely sounds like a WebKit bug, so I would report there, and maybe search for existing issues.
  • YusukeS
    YusukeS Posts: 2

    Thank you for your advice. I followed it accordingly.

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