Re: Is ARMENIAN ABBREVIATION MARK (՟, U+055F) misclassified?

[James Kass via Unicode]

On 2019-04-26 11:08 PM, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:

This is a small percentage of the number of fonts that have all four of these 
Armenian glyphs, but show the abbreviation mark as a spacing glyph. It looks 
like Unicode is right, Wikipedia is right, and the fonts are wrong.
If the Wikipedia page(s) are correct, then Unicode isn't.  Unicode 
charts don't show the glyph on the dotted circle and the canonical 
combining class is shown as "spacing".  The fact that Doug Ewell found 
some installed fonts displaying the character as a combining mark 
suggests that the Wikipedia pages are correct.  This character is listed 
as being unused in modern Armenian, but you'd think that it would have 
been exposed before now since the charcter has been in Unicode since 
version 1.0.

Re: Is ARMENIAN ABBREVIATION MARK (՟, U+055F) misclassified?

[Doug Ewell via Unicode]

Fredrick Brennan wrote:

> Although my research on this has by no means been exhaustive, it
> seems at a cursory glance that the «pativ», the Armenian abbreviation
> mark, is misclassified; it seems it should either be itself a
> combining mark or have a combining mark version.
>
> I have not been able to find a single Unicode font which treats it as
> such, however.

Using BabelPad on Windows 10, with the sequence <0531, 0532, 0533, 055F> (ayb, 
ben, gim, abbreviation mark), the following fonts show the abbreviation mark 
correctly over the gim:

Calibri
Cambria
Cambria Math
Nishiki-teki
Trebuchet MS

All of these except Nishiki-teki are standard Windows fonts.

This is a small percentage of the number of fonts that have all four of these 
Armenian glyphs, but show the abbreviation mark as a spacing glyph. It looks 
like Unicode is right, Wikipedia is right, and the fonts are wrong.

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