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Adjust the 亥 part in 氦 (U+6C26, JP only)

Open CoolMarvel43 opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

While I do not have an issue with the horizontal top stroke in the 亥 part of 氦 (U+6C26), I have a slight issue with the last stroke in 亥, where it is a throw stroke (捺). While Japanese standards do not observe a practice where throw strokes are not supposed to be invoked if another non-throw stroke is more prominent, I think it should be changed to a drop stroke (點) for consistency sake, because the base character 亥 (U+4EA5) has a drop stroke for the last stroke. Granted that 氦 (U+6C26) is a rare character only appearing in Supplement 6 of Adobe-Japan1, but it should be adjusted nonetheless.

Screenshot 2023-06-23 at 22 26 59

And yes, it's following exactly what the Unicode charts provide, but I think it's not fully accurate. Screenshot 2023-06-23 at 22 24 34

Also applies to Serif, and the base commercial fonts Kozuka Gothic and Kozuka Mincho.

CoolMarvel43 avatar Jun 23 '23 14:06 CoolMarvel43

According to the Moji Jōhō website, the reference glyph is shown with the drop stroke in the bottom right of the 亥 part, not a throw stroke.

Screenshot 2023-08-03 at 17 38 35

CoolMarvel43 avatar Aug 03 '23 09:08 CoolMarvel43

Be noted that the form shown is matching of those provided in the original JIS X 0212-1990 document and subsequently Adobe-Japan1-7 PDF.

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NightFurySL2001 avatar Aug 03 '23 14:08 NightFurySL2001

Since the original JIS document also has this inconsistency, the Japanese standards must be making a fundamental error here, which then propagated to modern fonts which have to follow such standards. I think it would be better for those Japanese standard bodies to change it to a drop stroke, even if they are not obligated to like the Chinese standards. Which is the reason why sometimes Japanese standards can get some components inconsistent.

I suggest Adobe to KIV for the time being. Maybe I should also report such glyph issues to the Adobe-Japan1 GitHub page, but then I should not expect them to get fixed because the glyph shapes are already set a long time ago.

CoolMarvel43 avatar Aug 03 '23 15:08 CoolMarvel43