Noto Devanagari: there is a bug

[Abhay2Agarwal]

I was recently typing in Devanagari, and i encountered a bug, which i think is significant. The description is :

र + ् + [any character] + ो + र + े
र्रोरे

reph overlaps with matra e

I will attach some photos

A lot of fonts have this bug

I hope you will see it and fix this.

[Abhay2Agarwal]

This is evident while writing कार्पोरेशन बैंक. You can see "र्पोरे" reph & matra e do overlap

[simoncozens]

I agree that it overlaps - but I am not sure that it's a bug! Is it unreadable? Can it be confused for something else? As you say, it's something that happens with most Devanagari fonts - so maybe it's OK; maybe it's expected at this point.

I could add an alternate, steeper e-matra just for this case, but it's adding another glyph and rules to fix a rare corner case, so I'd like to make sure it's actually a problem first.

[Abhay2Agarwal]

I agree that it overlaps - but I am not sure that it's a bug! Is it unreadable? Can it be confused for something else? As you say, it's something that happens with most Devanagari fonts - so maybe it's OK; maybe it's expected at this point.

I could add an alternate, steeper e-matra just for this case, but it's adding another glyph and rules to fix a rare corner case, so I'd like to make sure it's actually a problem first.

Yes in smaller font sizes it is creating confusion and unreadable. Please fix this.

Maybe another way to get this better is modify either /both reph & matra e so they never lap.

I was recently writing a mail to the corporation bank (an indian bank) in Hindi and i myself got confused looking at the way we wrote कार्पोरेशन.

[Abhay2Agarwal]

This overlap will also happen on:

र्खरे र्गरे र्घरे ... र्शरे र्षरे र्सरे

Most of the alphabets in hindi.

I would gently urge you to modify reph a little :)