Two obsolete glyphs: amendments to Unicode

[Mercury13]

UPDATE: While this issue was hanging, someone fixed A798

Title

Glyphs A66E, A798, AB5A are obsolete

Font

NotoSerif-Regular.ttf

Where the font came from, and when

Site: notofonts.github.io
Date: 2023-03-30

Font Version

2.010

OS name and version

All OS

Application name and version

All apps

Issue

Wrong glyphs for those characters: A66E, A798, AB5A

Character data

U+A66E Cyrillic letter Multiocular O
U+A798 Latin capital letter F with stroke (someone fixed)
U+AB5A Latin small letter Y with short right leg

Screenshot

YOURS

MINE

SOURCES
Multiocular O

F with stroke

Old (straight italic) Y with short leg was just a consequence of italic font; in regular font it should look like normal y.

[Mercury13]

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2022/22196-cap-letter-f-with-stroke.pdf
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2022/22199-small-letter-y-with-short-right-leg.pdf
https://unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5170-multiocular-o.pdf

[Mercury13]

1. They just drew too few eyes, they had all samples.
2. Capital letter was purely reconstructed.
3. They looked at italic letters.

[simoncozens]

First one is #6.

[Mercury13]

Checked 4-month-old TTFs from gh-pages:

Serif straight: A798 OK somehow
AB5A BAD (use italic y)
A66E BAD (seven eyes)

Serif italic: A798 OK somehow
AB5A BAD (you’ve chosen other shape of italic y)
A66E BAD (still seven eyes, straight)

[Mercury13]

Sans straight: same
Sans italic: same, just A66E is italic

[Mercury13]

Mono straight: same. Just don’t make 10 eyes in A66E, it’ll be worse

[Mercury13]

If you want 10 eyes in Mono, turn them 90°. But seven are also OK.

 O
O O
 O
O O
 O
O O
 O
O O
 O

[Mercury13]

I’ll check sources later.

[moyogo]

@Mercury13 nothing has changed except U+A798 so far. I’ve opened #443 for U+AB5A.

[Mercury13]

I’m closing this, and moving everything to #6.