Missing character (U+0009) 'CHARACTER TABULATION'

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The package of IBM’s typeface, IBM Plex.

SIL Open Font License 1.1

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Missing character (U+0009) 'CHARACTER TABULATION' #249

Closed antoson closed 5 years ago

antoson commented 5 years ago

Great job with the font. Please add missing tab character.

BoldMonday commented 5 years ago

Do you have examples of use cases for this glyph?

antoson commented 5 years ago

It is a common ASCII character. It is used in programming languages' strings, parsing, formatting. Sometimes supplementing tab character with spaces is not enough. Is there a reason for it not to be added to the font family?

moyogo commented 5 years ago

U+0009 is already in IBM Plex fonts, except for IBM Plex Sans Variable fonts.

It is mapped to the same glyph as U+0020 space, which agrees with pre-OpenType 1.8 recommendations that most fonts still follow in a similar manner.

BoldMonday commented 5 years ago

@gamodulon Please provide a real life situation where IBM Plex is currently not working correctly due to the lack of said character.

The fact that the glyph itself is not in all fonts does not mean that users cannot use the tab character at all. All applications that I know synthesize the tab character to a particular width by themselves.