Inaccurate spacing and cursor placement when using an ampersand or solidus

[jdandrea]

If I add an ampersand or solidus to my text—be it Red Hat Text or Red Hat Display, any weight—I see a few odd artifacts:

• Extra spacing follows soon after the appearance of either character, so something like "AT&T Labs" may appear as "AT&T__Labs" or "AT&T/Bell Labs" may appear as "AT&T/___Bell Labs". (Underscores used in place of spaces here for illustration.)
• The cursor placement also appears out of alignment, in terms of what is seen vs what is actual (relative to the text being edited).

To reproduce, try typing "AT&T/Bell Labs" (in my case in a Google Slides document) using any of the fonts/weights, observe the spacing, then try placing the cursor and selecting text.

[jdandrea]

More info: Testing in a new Google Slides document still shows the symptoms. Using the same fonts in a Google Docs document (same Google Workspace environment) looks fine and cursor placement is fine.

So it may not be a font issue after all. I figure it's still worth mentioning here though since Red Hat Display is indicated for media such as Google Slides presentations.

I would check for kerning (or tracking?), however it doesn't look like Slides supports that. Since I get the same issue typing into an empty Slides file anyway my thinking is it's something else. Thoughts welcomed.

[jdandrea]

Closing. Upon further inspection, this minimal test case works across various browsers/platforms. Only Google Slides on Safari has unexpected rendering and text selection, which is what I happened to be using. Thus there are workarounds, and I will see about engaging with Google Slides devs next.

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