Combining diacriticals

[Don Blaheta]

I want a character that is æ with an acute accent over it.  Right now, I
appear to have two choices:

  1) Have æ followed by an acute accent (by typing æ and then "COMBINING
        ACUTE ACCENT")
  2) Have æ with an acute accent over it, but in a different font (by
        typing "LATIN SMALL LETTER AE WITH ACUTE" from the Extended-B
        code block)

I think #1 is what I tried before, and it worked, but now it definitely
doesn't.  I've attached a ly file (zipped to avoid accidentally
corrupting it in transfer) with four lyric words in it: the first
contains just æ, the second æ followed by "ACUTE ACCENT" (*supposed* to
not combine), the third æ followed by "COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT" (should
combine, but doesn't), and the fourth "LATIN SMALL LETTER AE WITH
ACUTE", which renders but in an ugly different font.

I'd argue that that last is buggy behaviour, but I suspect it fits the
Unicode spec.  Not combining, though, that's annoying.  I know the
middle two are different because xterm displays one as two characters
(correctly) and the other as a blank, because it knows it's a character
it doesn't have glyphs for.

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