This came up during Jen Witkowski and Jared Ponchot's DrupalCon Europe session.

Evidently the chosen fonts don't support all types of accents.

From the chat:

Are there plans to replace the font with one supporting accents?

The glyphs chart on Google fonts seems to be missing a bunch of accents used in German https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lora#standard-styles

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mherchel created an issue. See original summary.

jwitkowski79’s picture

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  • I did some quick research on special characters that appear in German, and it looks like it might just be Ää Öö Üü ẞß. I grabbed that research from this wikipedia page. I'm not sure if there's any more that we're missing? @mherchel volunteered to reach out to the German community to ask.
  • I looked at the Lora glyphs page and it looks like they don't have them all listed.
  • I tested out these special glyphs using the actual Metropolis font and Lora font in Figma, and it looks like they appear correctly (see attached screenshot). So maybe the documentation is incorrect? Again, there could be some glyphs that I'm completely missing that are indeed German, but with the German lorem ipsum text that I also included in the screenshot, it all tests out ok. Nothing is missing or rendering incorrectly
  • Next steps: 1. reach out to the German community to see if there are glyphs that we are not accounting for. 2. Do we also want to just put a general call out to the international community to test out the theme with their language to see if everything is rendering correctly?

screenshot of German text

mherchel’s picture

I posted a call for help in the Drupal Germany Slack channel at https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C265YPGQH/p1607446978003700

aschiwi’s picture

I am German and offered help. mherchel gave me login credentials and I added this content: https://tugboat-bf5udo5tbzfdng7rycgs71zt6kcb2fhl.tugboat.qa/node/60

As far as I know, the Umlauts tested by jwitkowski79 are all that we have. The capital ß is fairly new and most Germans don't really know about it. It can't even be written on a Mac and that one is the only one that doesn't seem to be covered by the font. Since this letter never stands at the beginning of a word, it only applies when writing all uppercase words. On websites, imho this is usually done with a css declaration, which would turn the ß into SS.

I can't think of any other special characters for German, I did some research but couldn't come up with anything.

mherchel’s picture

Status: Active » Fixed

Thank you so much @aschiwi!!

I went and modified the tugboat preview and copied and pasted that text into H2 (which renders a different font) and that looked good too.

Closing, if new info comes to light we can open up a new issue.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.