googlefonts / mekorot

Hebrew Rashi Typeface
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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No support for U+FB4F (Hebrew Ligature Alef Lamed) #28

Open VaultAusir opened 9 months ago

VaultAusir commented 9 months ago

The font is missing a character historically found in various texts in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), a language where the Rashi script is used as a standard, such as Me'am Lo'ez, making it impossible to properly transcribe them.

U+FB4F (Hebrew Ligature Alef Lamed)

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Example of a word with the character defaulting to fallback font instead when it is used:

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Historical text in Rashi script (Me'am Lo'ez) with the same word (ﭏישארלו), using this ligature highlighted:

Alef Lamed Ligature

Another example of the same character from the same text, can be used as reference for the glyph, as this is how the character was historically portrayed in Rashi script (in the word ﭏמה):

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Some other Rashi fonts use different shapes for this ligature, but one more close to the historical one, as above, is recommended.

VaultAusir commented 7 months ago

Another example of the ligature in Rashi script:

rashi_alef_lamed_ligature

Source: https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/lep/1900/06/15/01/article/7/?srpos=27&e=-------en-20--21--img-txIN%7CtxTI-טיסטה-------Ladino------1