Can't draw Currency symbols

[yehuda-simtex]

I am using Google Fonts 'Arimo' to try and write a currency symbol, for example: ₪
The Glyph does not come up. Other currency codes do come out.
text: "USD: $; EUR: €; ILS: ₪; GBP: £"
Output:

Any ideas?

[JimBobSquarePants]

That would suggest to me that the font does not contain that particular symbol. You’ll need a fallback font.

[yehuda-simtex]

If you visit the test page, it will render the symbol properly.

[tocsoft]

That pages is using the browsers rendering engine to render the font, browsers automaticaly render using one or more fallback fonts to prevent issues where font don't have particular glyphs (as in this case)... you can use a tool like https://fontdrop.info (I recommend using the static Arimo-Regular.ttf file downloaded from google link you provided, I had issues getting the the variable ones working with that site) to verify what glyphs are present in the file.

Note: for tabs other than the Glyphs tab fontdrop is also effected by the issue where the browser auto applying a fallback font during rendering.

[yehuda-simtex]

Issue resolved - the download from Google was wrong. Once this was fixed, the symbol did render correctly.