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Latin small letter i with caron (U+01D0, ǐ) has a misplaced dot inside the caron

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_Possibly a duplicate of https://github.com/googlefonts/roboto-flex/issues/427_

A user wrote in,

>> we've been using Roboto Light Italic as the typeface for Pinyin, which allows individuals who can't read Chinese to be able to pronounce the Chinese characters.
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>> However, over the years, someone within our organisation has noticed that some of the Pinyin looked strange and weird whilst the rest of the Pinyin looked perfectly fine.
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>> In this screenshot below, using a software application called ProPresenter, the glyphs have been set to Roboto Light Italic. However, some of the glyphs are not italicised at all and remain bold.
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>> These glyphs are the vowels in Pinyin, (a, e, i, o and u).
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>> Is it possible for you folks to have Roboto Light Italic support the following glyphs? `ǎ ǐ ǒ ǔ`

I replied,

> Roboto is no longer maintained actively, the glyph set will not change. Our latest versions are Roboto Flex, which has a smaller glyph set, and Noto Sans, which has a larger glyph set; it seems both support these characters, although RF has a bug? If you confirm its buggy, we may be able to fix it there.
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> https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Flex?preview.text=%C7%8E%20%C7%90%20%C7%92%20%C7%94
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> https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans?preview.text=%C7%8E%20%C7%90%20%C7%92%20%C7%94

And they confirmed the`ǐ` is broken:

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0aff9912-2df7-45a6-8018-1f801819f6c7)

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b5d67de1-60be-477e-bd7e-35db4027f141)

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