I tested some widely available open-source/libre fonts to see which of them best support Cypriot Greek consonant modifiers. Currently, Mozilla’s font Fira Sans has the best support.

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DejaVu Sans

Good: Breve, Caron

Bad: Subscript-iota

Fira Sans

Good: Breve, Caron, Subscript-iota in oblique

Bad: Subscript-iota in italics

Gentium

Good: Breve, Caron

Bad: Subscript-iota

MgOpen Moderna

Good: Breve, Caron

Bad: Subscript-iota

New Athena Unicode

Good: Breve, Caron

Bad: Subscript-iota

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