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Some of the Arabic letters look extremely corrupted #743

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@AptiviCEO

Cascadia family version

2404.23

Cascadia family variant(s)

Cascadia Code (the version with ligatures), Cascadia Mono (the version without ligatures)

Font file format(s)

Windows Terminal included version (TTF (variable)), .ttf (variable)

Platform

Windows 11 23H2

Other Software

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What happened?

First, thank you for your hard work on Cascadia Code 2404.23!

It looks like that some of the following Arabic glyphs look corrupted on all the applications. I was exploring new typefaces using the character map program on Windows while trying to brainstorm an idea for Terminaux (a C# library) while I encountered some corrupted characters at least for the Arabic language. It only happens in the NF and the PL variants.

However, this corruption doesn't happen on large font sizes (43 px and up); only happens on 42 px and lower. When these Arabic characters connect, the corruption increases.

The following characters all suffer from visual graphical glitches (connected or not) that make such letters illegible: (Note that the terminal I-Beam cursor line is not part of the glyph and, hence, not part of the corruption)

Letter Once Twice Thrice
U+063B: ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH TWO DOTS ABOVE (ػ) image image image
U+0684: ARABIC LETTER DYEH (ڄ) image image image
U+0687: ARABIC LETTER TCHEH (چ) image image image
U+0688: ARABIC LETTER TCHEHEH (ڇ) image image image
U+06AD: ARABIC LETTER NG (ڭ) image image image
U+06AF: ARABIC LETTER GAF (گ) image image image
U+06B0: ARABIC LETTER GAF WITH RING (ڰ) image image image
U+06B1: ARABIC LETTER NGOEH (ڱ) image image image
U+06B2: ARABIC LETTER GAF WITH TWO DOTS BELOW (ڲ) image image image
U+06B3: ARABIC LETTER GUEH (ڳ) image image image
U+06B4: ARABIC LETTER GAF WITH THREE DOTS BELOW (ڴ) image image image
U+06B7: ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE (ڷ) image image image
U+06B8: ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH THREE DOTS BELOW (ڸ) image image image
U+06BF: ARABIC LETTER TCHEH WITH DOT ABOVE (ڿ) image image image
U+075E: ARABIC LETTER AIN WITH THREE DOTS POINTING DOWNWARDS ABOVE (ݞ) image image image
U+0763: ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE (ݣ) image image image
U+076A: ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH BAR (ݪ) image image image
U+077F: ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH TWO DOTS ABOVE (ݿ) image image image
U+08B0: ARABIC LETTER GAF WITH INVERTED STROKE (ࢰ) image image image
U+08B3: ARABIC LETTER AIN WITH THREE DOTS BELOW (ࢳ) image image image

Out of all the glitches experienced by these characters, U+06AF, U+06B0, U+06B2, U+06B3, U+06B4, U+075E, U+077F, and U+08B0 characters are the most affected with their corruption at its worst. However, the normal Arabic characters look fine, such as this:

image

I suspect that the glyphs for the above characters may not have been generated properly in the final font files.

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