Noto Rashi Hebrew - no support for U+FB1E (Hebrew Point Judeo-Spanish Varika)

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Title

No support for U+FB1E (Hebrew Point Judeo-Spanish Varika)

Font

NotoRashiHebrew-VariableFont_wght.ttf

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Rashi+Hebrew
Date: 2024-02-04 (preferred format)

Font Version

Version 1.006

OS name and version

macOS 14.2 (but happens on every system)

Issue

The font is missing two characters important for writing Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), a language where the Rashi script is used as a standard:

U+FB1E (Hebrew Point Judeo-Spanish Varika)

Character data

The combining diacritic U+FB1E (Hebrew Point Judeo-Spanish Varika) is not supported, despite being a character very common particularly in writing Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) in the Rashi script.

The diacritic should combine at the very least with the following characters it has been traditionally used with:

U+05D1 (Hebrew Letter Bet): בﬞ
U+05D2 (Hebrew Letter Gimel): גﬞ
U+05D3 (Hebrew Letter Dalet): דﬞ
U+05D6 (Hebrew Letter Zayin): זﬞ
U+05D8 (Hebrew Letter Tet): טﬞ
U+05E4 (Hebrew Letter Pe): פﬞ
U+05DB (Hebrew Letter Kaf): כﬞ
U+05E9 (Hebrew Letter Shin): שﬞ

Screenshot

Examples of words with the diacritic defaulting to fallback font instead when it is used (screenshot of Pages app):

Historical text in Rashi script with some uses of the diacritic highlited:

[simoncozens]

Thanks for the report - this will require a new character to be drawn, and we don't have anything budgeted for this year. Hopefully we can either get this done for next year or have someone contribute a pull request in the meantime!