Lorna | 14 April 2023

Changes

This release includes the following changes for this version:

New

• Added Medium and SemiBold weights
• Added Arabic-style (rounded) versions of chevron quotes
• Added Bold calligraphic honorifics (previous ones were the same weight as Regular)
• Added:
  • U+201B SINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
  • U+201F DOUBLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
  • U+10EFD ARABIC SMALL LOW WORD SAKTA
  • U+10EFE ARABIC SMALL LOW WORD QASR
  • U+10EFF ARABIC SMALL LOW WORD MADDA
• New features:
  • cv49 – Heh Doachashmee

Improved

• Changed Kurdish language to support a U+06BE Heh Doachashmee alternate rather than U+0647 Heh alternate
• Redesigned
  • U+0616 ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH (see https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/erratafixed.html)
  • Slight adjustments to:
  • gaf-like characters (such as U+06AF ARABIC LETTER GAF)
  • U+0601 ARABIC SIGN SANAH
  • U+0605 ARABIC NUMBER MARK ABOVE
• Small improvements to kerning

Removed

• Removed support for Sindhi-style comma when Sindhi language is selected
• Removed Graphite support

Known issues

• Shaping for the newly added characters may not yet occur in applications
• Medial and final high hamza characters may have collisions (these likely do not occur)
• Lam + high hamza alef ligature does not form as it likely does not occur