Latin U+A7BA-A7BF (ꞺꞻꞼꞽꞾꞿ) should not be italic in roman styles

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Latin U+A7BA-A7BF (ꞺꞻꞼꞽꞾꞿ) should not be italic in roman styles

Font

NotoSans-Regular.ttf NotoSerif-Regular.ttf and other roman style fonts of NotoSans and NotoSerif (LatinGreekCyrillic).

Where the font came from, and when

https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/blob/b7086582d72f537474b61285a81e0d30a250bcfa/phaseIII_only/hinted/ttf/NotoSans/NotoSans-Regular.ttf https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/blob/b7086582d72f537474b61285a81e0d30a250bcfa/phaseIII_only/hinted/ttf/NotoSerif/NotoSerif-Regular.ttf

Font Version

2.003

OS name and version

N/A

Application name and version

N/A

Issue

The glyphs for the following characters are italic in the roman styles of Noto Sans and Noto Serif:

• Ꞻ ‎A7BA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL A
• ꞻ ‎A7BB LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL A
• Ꞽ ‎A7BC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL I
• ꞽ ‎A7BD LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL I
• Ꞿ ‎A7BE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL U
• ꞿ ‎A7BF LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL U

They should be roman (upright) in roman styles and italic in the italic styles.

See the samples used in the Unicode proposal https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08272-n3487-egyptological-yod.pdf for examples of roman glyphs for the lowercase characters:

from Hetzron, Robert, ed. 1997. The Semitic Languages. London: Routledge.

from unspecified source.

Or see M. O’Connor, “Epigraphic Semitic Scripts” in Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, The world’s writing systems, Oxford University Press, 1996, page 95

Character data

See above

Screenshot

Screenshot of ꞺꞻꞼꞽꞾꞿ in NotoSans-Regular.ttf and NotoSerif-Regular.ttf.

[nizarsq]

Issue reproducible on NotoSans, NotoSansDisplay, NotoSeriff and NotoSeriffDisplay. Test case created.