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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?
I’d still report issues, though. LibreOffice might fix it. CoreText issues I report eventually get fixed as well. I have no experience with reporting DirectWrite issues, though.1 -
Re: GPOS lookup with both Latin and PUA codepoints?
I’m afraid segmentation issues are out of the control of font developers, and with lack of a well defined standard for script segmentation, it is up to each implementation to do whatever it thinks ri…1 -
Re: How much creative freedom in drawing currency symbols
According to Unicode core spec: So it appears that the existing Rial symbol is not actually in use. In most fonts it is just the word ريال written in the same style of the font (some get more creativ…1
