notofonts/noto-fonts

Multiocular O needs updating

nicolasnoble opened this issue · 1 comments

Defect Report

Title

The Multiocular O glyph (U+A66E) has been updated by the unicode committee, according to new information that came to light.

Font

'NotoSans-Regular.ttf' is affected, but many other versions are affected too.

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://github.com/google/fonts/raw/main/ofl/notosans/NotoSans-Regular.ttf
Date: 2022-12-01

Font Version

2.007

OS name and version

n/a

Application name and version

n/a

Issue

The Multiocular O glyph was initially thought to contain 7 eyes. A closer inspection of the script revealed that it contains, in fact, 10 eyes.

Character data

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiocular_O for more details.

Screenshot

The current version from Noto Sans:
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The newly adopted glyph by the Unicode committee:
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Thank you! We're already tracking this at notofonts/latin-greek-cyrillic#6