Support Accented Characters and Diacritics
Ensure fonts include all needed accented characters. Use correct diacritics (café, not cafe; naïve, not naive). Store accents as Unicode characters, not composed sequences. Avoid over-subsetting, which strips accented glyphs.
Incorrect (missing diacritics, wrong encoding):
<meta charset="iso-8859-1">
<p>The cafe serves a prix fixe menu with creme brulee.</p>Correct (UTF-8 with proper diacritics):
<meta charset="utf-8">
<p>The café serves a prix fixe menu with crème brûlée.</p>Verify glyph coverage before selecting a font: test content covering all target languages. Avoid subsetting that removes accented ranges.