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Kaithi letter "a" and other characters having this glyph look wrongly written  #2

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Defect Report

The shape 𑂃 in Kaithi characters: uni11083, 84, 8B and 8C look like wrongly written on the Noto Sans Kaithi font. Instead of resembling its cursive form, it resembles the Devanagari श्र (shra).

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NotoSansKaithi-Regular.ttf

Where the font came from, and when

https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/tree/de091053cdfefbcaff5c0a968165a93a5e78df52/phaseIII_only/hinted/ttf/NotoSansKaithi

Date: 2019-11-2

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Current version on GitHub.

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The "a" in the East India company coin shows correctly how it's supposed to be written.
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How it's written.
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More samples, from Grierson's linguistic survey of India.

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