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The package of IBM’s typeface, IBM Plex.
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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[Arabic] U+06BD and U+06D1 should be connected #461

Open mahalisyarifuddin opened 2 years ago

mahalisyarifuddin commented 2 years ago

Greetings.

Just noticed in the Arabic font that U+06BD, the character prominently used in Malay, is not connected. The character should be connected with the initial and medial forms are shared with PEH (Unicode 14 spec).

Below is the screenshot evidence. I used the latest build of the font and Edge 103. The text is just "چڠڤݢڽۏ" I used for testing Arabic fonts. Untitled

The expected outcome (using SIL's Scheherazade). Untitled

[EDIT] U+06D1 also suffers the same issue. The letter should be connected and shares the same initial and medial forms with PEH and NYA. I don't have time to make a screenshot though, but the problem is also there.

That's it.

Also really appreciate that this typeface covers near-complete Arabic characters!

mjabbink commented 1 year ago

@mahalisyarifuddin The below message is a response from Wael Morcos, one of the designers of Plex Arabic.

This should be fixed via the production of the Open Type feature of the RTL connection (Init and Medi features). The initial and Medi forms are missing for these glyphs but the design exists in the font. So you need to use FB58 initial and FB59 medial for both issues that are mentioned in the comment.