simoncozens
commented
3 months ago Thanks for the report - this will require a new character to be drawn, and we don't have anything budgeted for this year. Hopefully we can either get this done for next year or have someone contribute a pull request in the meantime!
Title
No support for U+FB1E (Hebrew Point Judeo-Spanish Varika)
Font
NotoRashiHebrew-VariableFont_wght.ttf
Where the font came from, and when
Site: https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Rashi+Hebrew Date: 2024-02-04 (preferred format)
Font Version
Version 1.006
OS name and version
macOS 14.2 (but happens on every system)
Issue
The font is missing two characters important for writing Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), a language where the Rashi script is used as a standard:
U+FB1E (Hebrew Point Judeo-Spanish Varika)
Character data
The combining diacritic U+FB1E (Hebrew Point Judeo-Spanish Varika) is not supported, despite being a character very common particularly in writing Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) in the Rashi script.
The diacritic should combine at the very least with the following characters it has been traditionally used with:
U+05D1 (Hebrew Letter Bet): בﬞ U+05D2 (Hebrew Letter Gimel): גﬞ U+05D3 (Hebrew Letter Dalet): דﬞ U+05D6 (Hebrew Letter Zayin): זﬞ U+05D8 (Hebrew Letter Tet): טﬞ U+05E4 (Hebrew Letter Pe): פﬞ U+05DB (Hebrew Letter Kaf): כﬞ U+05E9 (Hebrew Letter Shin): שﬞ
Screenshot
Examples of words with the diacritic defaulting to fallback font instead when it is used (screenshot of Pages app):
Historical text in Rashi script with some uses of the diacritic highlited: