Improve combining diacritics in Chrome (#8687)

This makes all but 9 of U+20D0 to U+20F0 combine
correctly on Chrome. See also
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1328898

res/themes/legacy-light/css/_legacy-light.scss

@@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
-// XXX: check this?
 /* Nunito lacks combining diacritics, so these will fall through
-   to the next font.  Helevetica's diacritics however do not combine
+   to the next font.  Helevetica's diacritics sometimes do not combine
    nicely (on OSX, at least) and result in a huge horizontal mess.
-   Arial empirically gets it right, hence prioritising Arial here. */
+   Arial empirically gets it right, hence prioritising Arial here.
+   We also include STIXGeneral explicitly to support a wider range
+   of combining diacritics (Chrome fails without it, as per
+   https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1328898) */
 /* We fall through to Twemoji for emoji rather than falling through
    to native Emoji fonts (if any) to ensure cross-browser consistency */
 /* Noto Color Emoji contains digits, in fixed-width, therefore causing
    digits in flowed text to stand out.
    TODO: Consider putting all emoji fonts to the end rather than the front. */
-$font-family: 'Nunito', 'Twemoji', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Arial', 'Helvetica', sans-serif, 'Noto Color Emoji';
+$font-family: 'Nunito', 'Twemoji', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'STIXGeneral', 'Arial', 'Helvetica', sans-serif, 'Noto Color Emoji';
 
-$monospace-font-family: 'Inconsolata', 'Twemoji', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Courier', monospace, 'Noto Color Emoji';
+$monospace-font-family: 'Inconsolata', 'Twemoji', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'STIXGeneral', 'Courier', monospace, 'Noto Color Emoji';
 
 // unified palette
 // try to use these colors when possible

res/themes/light/css/_light.scss

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
-// XXX: check this?
-/* Nunito lacks combining diacritics, so these will fall through
-   to the next font.  Helevetica's diacritics however do not combine
+/* Nunito and Inter lacks combining diacritics, so these will fall through
+   to the next font. Helevetica's diacritics sometimes do not combine
    nicely (on OSX, at least) and result in a huge horizontal mess.
-   Arial empirically gets it right, hence prioritising Arial here. */
+   Arial empirically gets it right, hence prioritising Arial here.
+   We also include STIXGeneral explicitly to support a wider range
+   of combining diacritics (Chrome fails without it, as per
+   https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1328898) */
 /* We fall through to Twemoji for emoji rather than falling through
    to native Emoji fonts (if any) to ensure cross-browser consistency */
 /* Noto Color Emoji contains digits, in fixed-width, therefore causing
@@ -12,6 +14,7 @@ $font-family: 'Inter',
 'Twemoji',
 'Apple Color Emoji',
 'Segoe UI Emoji',
+'STIXGeneral',
 'Arial',
 'Helvetica',
 sans-serif,
@@ -21,6 +24,7 @@ $monospace-font-family: 'Inconsolata',
 'Twemoji',
 'Apple Color Emoji',
 'Segoe UI Emoji',
+'STIXGeneral',
 'Courier',
 monospace,
 'Noto Color Emoji';