{"schema":"cpc-unicode-answer-v1","question":"How does a combining mark join a letter?","answer":"This mark can combine visually with nearby text in a grapheme cluster. Code points: U+0065, U+0301. Its positioning depends on neighboring characters, font and shaping support. No fallback is suggested. Font coverage, shaping, and application acceptance were not tested, so those results are unknown.","unicodeVersion":"18.0.0","purpose":"general","citation":"Do not invent a platform-support claim from this data.","page":"/answers/how-a-combining-mark-joins-a-letter/","markdown":"/answers/how-a-combining-mark-joins-a-letter.md","sample":"é","codepoints":[{"codepoint":"U+0065","name":"LATIN SMALL LETTER E","displayLabel":"e","warnings":[],"explanations":[]},{"codepoint":"U+0301","name":"COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT","displayLabel":"́","warnings":["combining-mark"],"explanations":[{"id":"combining-mark","title":"Combining mark","behavior":"This mark can combine visually with nearby text in a grapheme cluster.","limitation":"Its positioning depends on neighboring characters, font and shaping support.","fix":"Inspect the full grapheme cluster, not this scalar in isolation.","source":"https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/","alternatives":[],"evidenceTier":"standards-informed-editorial","evidence":{"behavior":"standards-informed","compatibility":"not-tested","repair":"editorial-guidance"}}]}],"comparison":null,"graphemes":{"status":"available","method":"runtime-intl-segmenter","unicodeDataVersion":"runtime-unknown","count":1,"segments":[{"text":"é","utf16Offset":0,"codepoints":["U+0065","U+0301"]}]},"normalizationChanged":{"NFC":true,"NFD":false,"NFKC":true,"NFKD":false},"normalizationUnicodeDataVersion":"runtime-unknown","targetCompatibility":{"status":"unknown","evidenceTier":"not-tested","purpose":"general","explanation":"No OS, font, browser, application, field policy or rendering engine was tested. Unicode validity and segmentation do not establish actual display or acceptance."}}