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TypeTogether / Playwrite

Sensei primary repository.
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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⚠️ WARN Does the font contain a soft hyphen #37

Closed vv-monsalve closed 2 months ago

vv-monsalve commented 2 months ago

The following Warn is reported for all the fonts. It's usually recommended o delete this character. See this Fontbakery issue

⚠️ WARN Does the font contain a soft hyphen?
> > The 'Soft Hyphen' character (codepoint 0x00AD) is used to mark > a hyphenation possibility within a word in the absence of or > overriding dictionary hyphenation. > > It is sometimes designed empty with no width (such as a control character), > sometimes the same as the traditional hyphen, sometimes double encoded with > the hyphen. > > That being said, it is recommended to not include it in the font at all, > because discretionary hyphenation should be handled at the level of the > shaping engine, not the font. Also, even if present, the software would > not display that character. > > More discussion at: > https://typedrawers.com/discussion/2046/special-dash-things-softhyphen-horizontalbar > > Original proposal: https://github.com/fonttools/fontbakery/issues/4046 > See also: https://github.com/fonttools/fontbakery/issues/3486 * ⚠️ **WARN**

This font has a 'Soft Hyphen' character.

[code: softhyphen]
casasin commented 2 months ago

Fixed.