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I don't get what's supposed to happen. To me it looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/CMwdLNg.png

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This is what it looks like for me: http://i.imgur.com/ppMYz6c.png

Same for me

+1 same for me,

(to me it looks like some kind of particle accelerator experiment happening in your browser, where ก็็็็็ emits some kind of unknown radiation. After closer examination [zoom to +300%]: maybe it just shows the escaping life spirits of the toppled latin small letter «u» after being shot in right side.)

Chrome on Windows 7 64-bit:

http://imgur.com/3u1M2IG

It seems to render right on your browser. This is what I see: http://i.imgur.com/gJ1xBWn.png

It's actually more correct on your browser. It's a stack of diacritics. The rasterizer above was printing them on top of each other, which is (well, seems likely to be) typographically incorrect. The problem of course is that the implemented rules should disallow unused-in-the-real-world combinations of diacritics but don't.

But it's not a "rendering" bug.

About the same for me : http://i.imgur.com/fOTopJU.png

Both Opera and Chrome on Windows XP. On windows 7 I get the interestingly looking results with both Opera and Chrome.

I have tested with Firefox (latest version) on Windows XP and 7, and I think we can conclude the problem comes from Windows XP, as it shows the same thing as you, whereas it gives a whole big stack on Windows 7.

What browser and platform are you using?

It seems to work on Firefox x64 19.0 from Gentoo eBuild.

chrome 25 and xubuntu 12.10

It seems to work on most linux distro's. I'm using Chrome 25 and Windows 7 and It's buggy.

Works fine for me. Safari 6, OS X 10.8.

Works in Chrome 25, 10.6.8

I'm pretty sure it's a Windows GDI font rendering problem. Windows DirectWrite, Mac's CoreText and other platforms seem to do okay.

With Opera 12.14, I saw the same thing. I had to open the page in Chrome to see the weirdness.

http://i.imgur.com/5ov1qdf.png

This is an interesting result. Even more interesting is the extra 2000 results that Google throws in my direction.

I actually get a different rendering for some reason. I get all the extra diatricts to the right above empty circles. That certainly explains why I didn't quite understand the problem.

Looks like it's only a problem on Windows (and maybe Linux?). OS X is fine, Chrome and Safari.

Same here, looks fine for me in Chrome and Firefox on Ubuntu

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