Turkish ğ appears to be different from g

[srfsh]

The glyph for the Turkish character ğ is different than g, which shouldn't be the case. I tested the rest of the Turkish characters with their Latin counterparts, and only this very one appears to be different.

I have done my test on https://www.programmingfonts.org/#julia-mono, so it shouldn't be affected by the environment (assuming the web app is functioning well, of course). At the very end, you can see the difference.

You can also test it yourself:

iı Iİ
uü UÜ
oö OÖ
sş SŞ
cç CÇ
gğ GĞ

[cormullion]

Hi! Thanks. No problem to change it. I expect I was just going by the Unicode charts, which are usually single-storeyed.

[srfsh]

For the time being, one enable from the stylistic set ss01 to have both g and ğ look the same.

Availability of such feature begs the question: wouldn't it be better if, by default, all the derivatives of g looked the same, and setting ss01 alternates them all at once? This option would be more useful that way, and the style would be more consistent. Given that not only ğ is affected by this, but so does other derivatives like ḡ (not Turkish, but relevant to the point I'm trying to make), I think this would be the most friendly option.

Please do comment what your opinions are! ^.^

[cormullion]

Yes, fair points.

I don’t mind fixing a few glyphs occasionally but anything that ends up as lots of work is unlikely to move up the to-do list these days 😀

[srfsh]

Yes, fair points.

I don’t mind fixing a few glyphs occasionally but anything that ends up as lots of work is unlikely to move up the to-do list these days 😀

Fair. In that case, I would think ğ and ĝ should have priority. One is for Turkish, and the other is for Esperanto. Those are the only ones I am aware of that might need to have consistent look in use with plain g.

As a side note, do you have beginner friendly resources on editing fonts such as this one?

[cormullion]

As a side note, do you have beginner friendly resources on editing fonts such as this one?

This site is a good list of resources:

https://typedesignresources.com/

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