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Adjust the 亥 part in 氦 (U+6C26, JP only)
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.
And yes, it's following exactly what the Unicode charts provide, but I think it's not fully accurate.
Also applies to Serif, and the base commercial fonts Kozuka Gothic and Kozuka Mincho.
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.
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.
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.