U+10ACF MANICHAEAN LETTER YODH has two shapes: curl and dot

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Font

NotoSansManichaean-Regular.otf

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://github.com/notofonts/manichaean/releases/tag/NotoSansManichaean-v2.005
Date: 2023-10-07

Font version

Version 2.005

Issue

This font uses two shapes of U+10ACF MANICHAEAN LETTER YODH: a curl by default and a dot in ligatures. It should be consistent. I tentatively recommend using the dot shape because it seems much more common in body text.

M 98 and M 102, for example, use the curl shape in the heading and mostly the dot shape in the body. M 102 has three instances of the ⟨𐫝𐫏⟩ ligature: the yodh is a curl on line 1 of the body and a dot on lines 6 and 9. That shows that the choice of shape is not determined by whether there is a ligature.

The current dot in the ligature glyph is too small. It should be the height of a letter.

Character data

𐫏𐫝𐫏
U+10ACF MANICHAEAN LETTER YODH
U+10ADD MANICHAEAN LETTER SADHE
U+10ACF MANICHAEAN LETTER YODH

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