characters missing in Arabic font

[Chrisp90]

Hi @simoncozens, I am opening a new thread since the other one is closed, and I am not sure whether you receive notifications for closed cases. Below is my last comment from the other thread. Thanks in advance for your support.

Hi @simoncozens, I have been testing the temp version you pointed to, and it works well for most of the font typefaces, but Latin characters as well as a lot of symbols (punctuations, mathematical signs, etc.) are not supported for Light and Bold. In addition, the +/- glyph is not supported in any typeface of the Noto Sans Arabic. I have screenshots to share if needed. Is this supposed to be part of the upcoming update?

Originally posted by @Chrisp90 in #37 (comment)

[simoncozens]

This is expected. Noto fonts come in two builds. The main build simply contains the Unicode codepoints to support a script - for Arabic, these would be just the Arabic characters. Noto fonts are meant to be used as part of a font fallback stack whereby missing characters (i.e. Latin characters) are provided by other fonts (usually other Noto fonts).

But I know that people want to sometimes use these fonts as "standalone" fonts in things like word processors or typesetting tools which don't support a fallback stack. To support that, there is also a "full" build which contains a standard "Google Fonts Latin core" subset (the Latin alphabet, numbers, together with various punctuations and symbols. These full builds are available on the notofonts dashboard at https://notofonts.github.io - please try using one of those instead.

[Chrisp90]

thank you Simon! I didn't know about this dashboard :)