If you use the Latin alphabet with diacritics over characters, you may encounter a puzzling phenomenon in the Wordlist. You may have multiple entries of what appears to be the same word.
This happens because the Unicode standard has two ways of entering many letters with diacritics. For example, the é character can be the Unicode character 00E9, or it can be two characters, 0065 followed by 0301 (lower case e followed by combining diacritic acute). If this is the case, words containing 00E9 will not be identical with words containing 0065 + 0301, even if all the other letters are the same.
You can verify this by looking at the character inventory. This example is of a test project with two t characters, one *00E9 and one 0065 0301. You can see that it breaks down the difference between the é characters.
The Unicode standard does say that these sequences should be treated as identical by the software, but many programs have not managed to do that yet. Paratext does not, Microsoft Word does not either.
If you have this issue, you can fix it by doing a search and replace, for instance searching for one kind of é and replacing it with the other kind. To keep it from occurring again, translators working on the same project should either use the same keyboard file, or at least keyboard files that output the same character sequence for letters with diacritics.
