have your planned wordplays ever failed because there doesn't exist a way to produce a character that you'd need?

[0x10f@tech.lgbt]

@Stoori @xarvos @mira I wonder if any of these happen to look like Aa with double acute on some browser. (They don't on mine.)
Ä̋ä̋ (Ää + combining double acute)
Á́á́ (Áá + combining single acute)
Á̋á̋ (Áá + combining double acute)
Ȧ̋ȧ̋ (Ȧȧ + combining double acute)

[stoori@polyglot.city]

@0x10f @xarvos @mira they get jumbled up, let's add some spaces to see them separately

Ä̋ ä̋
Á́ á́
Á̋ á̋
Ȧ̋ ȧ̋

[stoori@polyglot.city]

@0x10f @xarvos @mira quite a mess

[xarvos@outerheaven.club]

@Stoori@polyglot.city @0x10f@tech.lgbt @mira this is how you get zalgo <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://outerheaven.club/emoji/neofox/neofox_lul_256.png" title=":neofox_lul:" />

[xarvos@outerheaven.club]

@Stoori@polyglot.city @0x10f@tech.lgbt @mira here is how it looks from mine, which i think is fine but you probably can't stack another layer of accute accents without it throwing up

[stoori@polyglot.city]

@xarvos @mira @0x10f that renders so much better!

[0x10f@tech.lgbt]

@Stoori @xarvos @mira Some other letters with combining double acute (these all look correct to me):
ɑ̋ (Latin small alpha)
ᴀ̋ (Latin small capital A)
Α̋ (Greek)
А̋а̋ (Cyrillic)
Ꭺ̋ (Cherokee)
Ａ̋ａ̋ (fullwidth)

[stoori@polyglot.city]

@0x10f @xarvos @mira the cherokee one is the only one that looks close to being right. but that's just a capital letter, i guess there isn't an equivalent small letter in cherokee alphabet?

[saruwine@mementomori.social]

@0x10f @Stoori @xarvos @mira Those all seem to render perfectly on my Mac (Safari 26.4, macos 15.7.6).

[stoori@polyglot.city]

@saruwine @0x10f @xarvos @mira oh, it's a vivaldi problem then?

[saruwine@mementomori.social]

@Stoori @0x10f @xarvos @mira Wouldn’t be surprised if that turned out to be the case.

[0x10f@tech.lgbt]

@Stoori @xarvos @mira Looks like there's not.

[saruwine@mementomori.social]

@Stoori @0x10f @xarvos @mira Checked on Waterfox (a fork of Firefox), and it seems to render those almost but not quite identically to Safari. For some reason the Cherokee A is in a serif font, and the fullwidth one is messed up. Fascinating and infuriating!

[xarvos@outerheaven.club]

@saruwine@mementomori.social @Stoori@polyglot.city @0x10f@tech.lgbt @mira i think that that's a cherokee letter that just happens to look like a capital serif A

[saruwine@mementomori.social]

@xarvos @mira @Stoori @0x10f Oh, you’re right, of course. But I find it rather strange that apparently all Cherokee glyphs render as serif on Waterfox and sans-serif on Safari.

(This is probably nothing weirder than the two browsers defaulting to different fonts for Cherokee, but… it’s still weird.)

[strilla@mementomori.social]

@Stoori Somehow read word "wordplay" as "workday" and before reading the second paragraph my mind went: "Yes, oh so many times yes, quite often I fail to produce the character in me who gets things done."