In title bar, Ñ, Ằ, ขึ้น and similar diacriticals are clipped in Linux

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Thanks for trying, Sam, but this is only a partial fix for me. I am applying the CSS here on meta. It works inconsistently, and only for the regular title, not when it’s contracted into the title bar

After considerable playing around, what works for me is:

.extra-info-wrapper,
.extra-info-wrapper .topic-link,
#topic-title h1 {
     overflow: visible;
}

Why repeat .extra-info-wrapper and .extra-info-wrapper .topic-link? I wish I knew: but that’s the only way I could get it to work.

This will potentially affect users in most Indic languages, Thai, Vietnamese, and languages using Arabic script: that’s a couple of billion people right there. The Ñ is of course in Spanish, too, so you can do the math.

It seems to me that failure to properly display characters in titles for scripts used by billions of people is, in fact, a bug, and one deserving of a little love.

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