How much of an estimation can the shape of the estimated sign be for it to still count as the estimated sign?
The »℮« symbol has both a precise legal meaning and a precisely defined shape.
The typeface Lucida Sans contains a glyph for U+212e ESTIMATED SYMBOL that’s doesn’t look like it should, with vertical lines in the counters.
And i nerd sniped myself with this.
I am looking at all kinds of packages at the moment, checking the ℮’s.
Bread packages lack them, i am sure because bread dries and loses weight anyway. There are special rules for bread.
Spices/herbs may be the same.
The heavy GDB mineral water bottle i have here misses it, too. Not sure why.
@ospalh I think it's an estimated version of the estimated symbol.
In practice I think it means that a typeface-specific rendering of the glyph would not have any legal standing as the compliance symbol, on packaging.
I feel like Unicode doesn't have any language/metadata to describe symbols that have to have specific glyph treatment, so that typeface authors would know which glyphs need further research before being designed; but I'm not sufficiently informed to be confident in that statement. Expert comments are welcome :-)
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