Bhaiksuki ddve looks like ḍve

[dscorbett]

Font

NotoSansBhaiksuki-Regular.otf

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/blob/da636d8d8c6654fe3199aba049a1a278859a892b/phaseIII_only/unhinted/otf/NotoSansBhaiksuki/NotoSansBhaiksuki-Regular.otf Date: 2020-04-21

Font version

Version 2.001

Issue

The glyph for the cluster ddve looks like ḍve. Compare it to ḍa and dda. It is based on the former but should be based on the latter.

I suspect this is because of the ambiguity in the transliteration ⟨dd⟩. It could be an ASCII rendition of ⟨ḍ⟩ or it could be two ⟨d⟩s. This font uses both conventions. For example, Ttu is ttu but Ttva is ṭva. I think it would be safer to use some unambiguous system consistently. I’ve only found this one bug, but the same confusion may have caused more.

Character data

𑰟𑰿𑰟𑰿𑰪𑰸𑰚𑰟𑰿𑰟 U+11C1F BHAIKSUKI LETTER DA U+11C3F BHAIKSUKI SIGN VIRAMA U+11C1F BHAIKSUKI LETTER DA U+11C3F BHAIKSUKI SIGN VIRAMA U+11C2A BHAIKSUKI LETTER VA U+11C38 BHAIKSUKI VOWEL SIGN E U+11C1A BHAIKSUKI LETTER DDA U+11C1F BHAIKSUKI LETTER DA U+11C3F BHAIKSUKI SIGN VIRAMA U+11C1F BHAIKSUKI LETTER DA

Screenshot

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ḍve isn't attested in The Bhaikṣukī Manuscript of the Candrālaṃkāra, but I agree this shape isn't ideal. For reference:

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