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Noto Egyptian Hieroglyphs
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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U+130B8, U+130B9 and U+130BA missing #4

Closed jasperhabicht closed 2 years ago

jasperhabicht commented 2 years ago

The Noto fonts where designed to prevent displaying "tofu" (the small rectangles that are displayed if the computer has not font at hand to display a specific glyph). The font Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs still seems to be missing three glyphs, namely U+130B8, U+130B9 and U+130BA.

The font Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs may be used in a scientific context for transcribing ancient inscriptions that display the glyphs that are assigned to these three codepoints. Despite the fact that these three glyphs that display a phallus may be considered offensive in certain contexts, in oder to be able to properly render transcriptions of such inscriptions, I strongly advocate the inclusion of these three glyphs in the font.

In case that including these three glyphs is a problem due their perceived offensive nature, an alternative rendering of these three glyphs should be considered or at least a placeholder glyph, so that the user of the font won't be offered "tofu" but a sensible alternative representation of these three glyphs.

Mercury13 commented 2 years ago

When were they deleted? 2.000 изображение

Mercury13 commented 2 years ago

Dev builds have too, but M$ Segoe DOES NOT have. Maybe you checked the wrong font?

jasperhabicht commented 2 years ago

I downloaded the font again from Google Fonts and opened it with FontForge. I can confirm that the glyphs are in there. Maybe really the wrong font was selected.

dwerning commented 2 years ago

For MS's Segoe UI Historic, there is a mechanism that these glyphs are only displayed iff standing directly next to other hieroglyphs. Next to non-hieroglyphic chars only a rectangle appears. In the case of Noto Sans EgyptianHiero all three signs should appear anywhere.