I can confirm that: span.redirect-in-category is 17px wide for ˿ but then 0px wide for ` (and if that's modifier input than it's applied on the letter before on the left which... yeah, isn't here in this special case.)

Funny enough, I cannot select that symbol in the Developer Tools DOM view of Firefox 33 either where it's a line on its own between the <li></li> tags.

Well there's really two approaches we could take here.

If the title starts with a combining character, we could either add a non breaking space so it has something to combine with. This would look like " ́". Or we could use a dotted circle - "◌́", to show how it would combine.

I'm leaning towards the non breaking space.

I think we can detect combining characters with preg_match( '/^[\p{Mn}\p{Me}]/u', $foo );. Not 100% sure if that gets all cases, but should catch most.

p.s. Actual link to relavent category starting at affected entries: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Redirects_from_Unicode_characters&pagefrom=~%0A%CC%80

This is still an issue; updated link: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Redirects_from_Unicode_characters&pagefrom=000300#mw-pages

The first item is:

̀

and that is not clickable.

Removing good first task, anyone feel free to add more pointers where exactly in the code base to fix this.