Apple core text and Microsoft 10 doesn't remove the dotted circle from diacritics with combination of non-breaking space(\u00A0).
Although harfbuzz removes the dotted circle (\u25CC) from diacritics. Harfbuzz leaves a space in place of the dotted circle (\u25CC)
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