Noto’s Armenian fonts support U+055A ARMENIAN APOSTROPHE but The Unicode Standard, ch. 7 says “The apostrophe at U+055A has the same shape and function as the Latin apostrophe at U+2019, which is preferred”, so they should also support U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK with the same glyphs. Using a font stack and falling back to the LGC fonts isn’t good enough, for two reasons. First, the LGC fonts’ glyphs for U+2019 and the Armenian fonts’ glyphs for U+055A are different; if that was intentional, it means that the Armenian fonts need to support U+2019 themselves. Second, kerning doesn’t work between glyphs in different fonts.
Font
NotoSansArmenian-Regular.otf NotoSerifArmenian-Regular.otf
Where the fonts came from, and when
Site: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/blob/c129ad2a857a10a429b20300f82bb90262008c17/unhinted/otf/NotoSansArmenian/NotoSansArmenian-Regular.otf Site: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/blob/c129ad2a857a10a429b20300f82bb90262008c17/unhinted/otf/NotoSerifArmenian/NotoSerifArmenian-Regular.otf Date: 2022-04-10
Font version
Version 2.005
Issue
Noto’s Armenian fonts support U+055A ARMENIAN APOSTROPHE but The Unicode Standard, ch. 7 says “The apostrophe at U+055A has the same shape and function as the Latin apostrophe at U+2019, which is preferred”, so they should also support U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK with the same glyphs. Using a font stack and falling back to the LGC fonts isn’t good enough, for two reasons. First, the LGC fonts’ glyphs for U+2019 and the Armenian fonts’ glyphs for U+055A are different; if that was intentional, it means that the Armenian fonts need to support U+2019 themselves. Second, kerning doesn’t work between glyphs in different fonts.
Character data
’ U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
Screenshots
U+2019 in Noto Sans
U+2019 in Noto Serif
U+055A in Noto Sans Armenian
U+055A in Noto Serif Armenian