OP is trying to explain that accents in Unicode can be written in two ways: either "COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT" + "LATIN SMALL LETTER E" (two codepoints) or "LATIN

OP is trying to explain that accents in Unicode can be written in two ways: either "COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT" + "LATIN SMALL LETTER E" (two codepoints) or "LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE" (one codepoint). They both render the same on all browsers. But they don't compare the same unless you use locale-aware code. To demonstrate this OP explicitly used "DOTTED CIRCLE" (◌) then added the "COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT" to that. Normally there would be no dotted circle. I wrote an article on this a while ago: https://richardjharris.github.io/unicode-in-five-minutes/ https://richardjharris.github.io/unicode-in-five-minutes/