Questionable macron in Noto Serif Devanagari

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Noto Devanagari

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Questionable macron in Noto Serif Devanagari #25

Closed dscorbett closed 4 years ago

dscorbett commented 5 years ago

Font

NotoSerifDevanagari-Regular.ttf

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/blob/576ccad099c8f92f8c61c01bf3fcfa1de3be50b4/unhinted/NotoSerifDevanagari-Regular.ttf Date: 2019-02-24

Font version

Version 1.01 uh

Issue

U+00AF MACRON should have positive side bearings, but in this font it behaves like U+203E OVERLINE. What’s this character doing in a Devanagari font, anyway?

Character data

¯¯ U+00AF MACRON U+00AF MACRON

Screenshot

JelleBosmaMT commented 5 years ago

My theory is that there was a mix up with hyphen 00AD.

marekjez86 commented 4 years ago

fixed in https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/tree/master/phaseIII_only/unhinted/ttf/NotoSerifDevanagari