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Re: Searching for a vector-based emoji font
Emoji presentation is usually handled by applications at font fallback stage. If a character has an Emoji presentation, applications will use a color font for this character (or specifically a color …1 -
Re: Italic punctuation in a font with both right slanted Latin and left slanted Hebrew/Arabic
These are some of the reasons indeed.Also in some scripts, like Arabic, slanted text has no much typographic use, since for many designs (especially the more traditional ones) it does not provide en…4 -
Re: Italic punctuation in a font with both right slanted Latin and left slanted Hebrew/Arabic
Using language or script-specific substitutions here is not reliable especially for numerals. Since numerals are strong LTR characters, they are always processed in separate BiDi run when inside RTL …3 -
Re: GPOS lookup with both Latin and PUA codepoints?
The is most likely a text segmentation issue. Some applications will split PUA characters into their own script run, and lookups don’t usually get applied across run breaks (Apple’s CoreText might be…1 -
Re: GPOS lookup with both Latin and PUA codepoints?
The font and the sample text show mirrored and correctly positioned marks for me in Pango, Firefox, and Chrome: The positioning is broken in LibreOffice, but that is surprising as I expected it to wo…2
