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Is there a way for font designers to provide flexible support for arbitrary accented combinations?

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Is there a way for font designers to provide flexible support for arbitrary accented combinations?

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A. Yes, in some cases, modern fonts support diacritical anchors, which enable pretty good dynamic display even of completely arbitrary base+accent combinations. For example, in Windows Vista, the core fonts (Arial, Tahoma, Times New Roman, and a few others) already have this feature. Other systems, such as Mac OS X, can provide such dynamic display even in the absence of explicit font support.