Noto Serif Devanagari improperly formatted matra with za+u ( ज़ + ु )

[nik-suri]

Font

NotoSerifDevanagari-Regular.ttf NotoSerifDevanagari-Bold.ttf

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://noto-website-2.storage.googleapis.com/pkgs/NotoSerifDevanagari-unhinted.zip Date: 2017-09-20

Font Version

1.01

OS name and version

macOS Catalina 10.15.4

Application name and version

Microsoft Word for Mac 16.16.22

Issue

Devanagari characters za + vowel sign u (U+095B + U+0941) appear as below in font Noto Serif Devanagari. The order of characters is za (U+095B) and za + u (U+095B + U+0941) shown first in regular and then in italicized. Notice how the vowel sign conflicts with the dot, which causes the dot to be barely visible: Compare to the same characters when printed in the Noto Sans Devanagari font: The placement of the dot in Noto Serif Devanagari should be updated to be similar to that of the dot in Noto Sans Devanagari.

[nizarsq]

@nik-suri can you test if this issue reproducible on the latest NotoSerifDevanagari (Version 2.001), can be found here https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/tree/master/phaseIII_only/unhinted/ttf/NotoSerifDevanagari. Let me know if this issue still reproducible on this font. (Please uninstall the older version to make sure you are using the latest font).

[nik-suri]

Thank you! The issue seems to have been fixed with NotoSerifDevanagari-Regular.ttf (Version 2.001). The screenshots below display what it looks like on my computer (normal and italicized):

[nizarsq]

Amazing! Thank you.