Issues with displaying this "হ্যাঁ" character when using Noto sans bengali about bengali

[simoncozens]

This issue has been fixed in the latest version of Noto Sans Bengali:

The fixed font can be downloaded from here. However, that version is not currently available on Google Fonts. I'm working on a way to automatically bring new versions of Noto fonts to Google Fonts, but we're not quite there yet.

[marek-sedlak]

Hi Simon,
Well actually we were testing the new version and we can see that the Regular face type was corrected, however all other faces are still wrong, please take a look at the screenshot below.

Orange highlighted cells are displaying correctly. Green highlighted cells are incorrect – font rendering issue.

[simoncozens]

Green (Adobe) is not doing any shaping at all - I suspect you need to turn on the "World Ready Composer" for Illustrator and/or turn on the Harfbuzz Override for InDesign.

I'll look at the other masters to see why the candrabindu positioning is different.

[marek-sedlak]

Hi Simon,
Thank you, we are testing your suggestions.
We will keep you posted

[marek-sedlak]

Hi @simoncozens ,
I would also like to ask, if it would be possible to combine the Language specific Noto sans variants as Benagli with the regular Noto sans. The reason why I am asking this is that we very often work with the text that is combination of Bengali or any other language specific font with latin characters.

[simoncozens]

When we move to the new build system, one of the outputs will be a "full" font with the script plus Noto Sans Latin. I'm hoping this will happen sometime in June.

[marek-sedlak]

Hi Simon,
I can confirm that World ready composer and Harfbuzz override helped, but we still see the correct character only in regular font type, other styles are still wrong.
Could you take a look please?

[simoncozens]

I've had a look, and the other masters do seem to be correct. When you downloaded the new Regular font (with the link above), did you also download the fixed version of all the other masters as well? (https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/tree/main/hinted/ttf/NotoSansBengali)

[marek-sedlak]

Hi @simoncozens we have downloaded other masters as well. Please see the screenshot below: The red ones are still wrong

It seems that in figma all is working well, but in other file formats some of the font faces are still displaying incorrectly

[marek-sedlak]

Hi @simoncozens,
Do you have any update on this one?

Thank you

Regards,

Marek S.

[simoncozens]

I think these must be caching issues with your software, or old versions of the fonts somewhere on your system. If all the weights are working in Figma, then there is no problem with the fonts we are supplying.

Note that on OS X, the font manager always uses system fonts in preference to user-supplied fonts of the same name. Since Noto Sans Bengali is a system font in OS X, it may well be picking up old versions from the operating system.

[marek-sedlak]

Hi @simoncozens,
You were right we had to delete the font from the Windows registry as well, and it helped. One last question from me. Are there any updates on providing "full" script version? Does June still look promising?

Thank you

Regards,

Marek S.

[simoncozens]

Yes, this is happening right now! You can download full (development) versions from https://notofonts.github.io/bengali/
New releases will also include the full builds.