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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon Gue3bara

Spacing symbols are treated as combining marks

Open dscorbett opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

The current font treats the spacing symbols U+FBB2 through U+FBB9, U+FBBD, and U+FBBE as combining marks. For example, here is <U+062F, U+FBB2> (د﮲): د﮲ It should look more like this: د﮲

dscorbett avatar Apr 07 '20 20:04 dscorbett

@dscorbett I'm not sure I understand the problem <U+062F, U+FBB2> generates the letter Thal ذ and the dot is anchored on top of the letter as it should be Screenshot 2020-05-07 18 47 20

Gue3bara avatar May 07 '20 16:05 Gue3bara

U+FBB2 is not a combining mark. It is a spacing symbol meant for describing glyph components, not for combining with letters to make new letters.

dscorbett avatar May 07 '20 16:05 dscorbett

That is a Glyphs bug (specially fonts built with old versions of it), it used to use the dot symbols as combining marks for building composites. A simple fix would be removing the Unicode code points assigned to these glyphs in the source file and re-exporting the font.

khaledhosny avatar May 07 '20 18:05 khaledhosny