Hi!
Mystery solved. UTF-8 is not so easy. I found the related block for the ⃤ .
It is "U+20D0..U+20FF Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols".
All this glyphs have a width = 0. They are intended not to move forward while writing like
the "dead letters" on the keyboard.
In total there are more than 800 of this diacritical marksin UTF-8, not only for french but thai, mongolian, hebrew, arabian kyrilic and other languages.
So the label and the hint should be aware of the width=0 and place the char correct.
So kate and the forum editor are wrong. And the other apps are right.
Thanx for your help.
Winni