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Diacritics compositions / dotted circle ligatures

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Description

To be able to support diacritics compositions, google fonts need to include support for
`dotted circle + *` ligatures (type 4 in GSUB)
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/300067/105726057-a7cb8c80-5ef7-11eb-9a8e-55130f598ab2.png)
Afaik there's no that feature yet.

Ref https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/gsub, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/script-development/arabic

That can be done as a separate tool, but having that in google fonts would enable so many world uses, like vedabase.io etc

_Originally posted by @dy in https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1808#issuecomment-766894187_

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