Far be it from me to stir things up even further, but...
QUESTION - Is the rendering of {U+0065} {U+0302} (that's <i, combining circumflex above>) locale-dependent?
I may have got this totally wrong, but it occurs to me that in non-Turkic fonts, U+0065 is "soft-dotted". That is, the dot disappears in the presence of any COMBINING....ABOVE modifier. But in Turkic, U+0065 is "hard-dotted", so the dot must not be removed if a circumflex is added. I freely admit I don't know whether Turkic uses circumflex or not, but the question will work just as well with /any/ COMBINING....ABOVE modifier.
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Turkish does in fact use circumflex above a, i and u, although rather rarely and often dropped today (but no other diacritics above except for umlaut as part of regular letters, no umlaut on i). i with circumflex is especially rare but is sometimes written on Arabic loan words like millà (/national/). Note carefully that this is pronounced as a variant of *dotted* i, and replaced by dotted i (not dotless i) when the circumflex is dropped, but it is written undotted in both upper and lower case. Note the following found from a Google search, which gives some upper and lower case equivalents.
TÃRK *MÄLLÃ* KODLANDIRMA SÄSTEMÄ. *...* . *MillÃ* KodlandÄrma Sisteminin temelini ...
Conclusion: the right thing even for Turkish is to drop the dot on i before a circumflex. But by the same argument we would also want to drop the dot on dotless I. Oh dear, I have just made the whole issue even more complicated!
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