Affinity Publisher writes "v" instead of "u" in certain fonts

[RaWa]

I cannot write the letter "u" in Affinity with the font "EB Garamond". It is always replaced by "v". In Pages, oddly enough, the font works fine, so I don't think it's the font itself. Does anyone have any idea if there is a setting for this?

[Joachim_L]

Do you have the variable font version installed, which is not (yet) supported by Affinity?

[Alfred]

52 minutes ago, Joachim_L said:

Do you have the variable font version installed, which is not (yet) supported by Affinity?

I wouldn’t expect the variable font version to perform such a substitution, especially not by default. Using my copy of EB Garamond, I can’t even find an ‘All Alternates’ or ‘Stylistic Sets’ OpenType setting that replaces u with v.

[kenmcd]

1 hour ago, RaWa said:

I cannot write the letter "u" in Affinity with the font "EB Garamond"

Which version are you using?

Where did you download it from?

Or could you attach the fonts here?

[Joachim_L]

9 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Using my copy of EB Garamond, I can’t even find an ‘All Alternates’ or ‘Stylistic Sets’ OpenType setting that replaces u with v.

The copy from Google on Windows turns Ukulele in Alternate 1 to Vkulele and Alternate 2 turns it into Uk_vlele. Perhaps there is a difference on Mac as for the OP?

[Alfred]

19 minutes ago, Joachim_L said:

The copy from Google on Windows turns Ukulele in Alternate 1 to Vkulele and Alternate 2 turns it into Uk_vlele.

I thought mine was the version from Font Squirrel but I don’t seem to have the decorated ‘Initials’ options.

[RaWa]

@Alfred @Joachim_L Thank you very much for your answers. I downloaded the font from Google Fonts and reinstalled it. Now it works fine. It also seems to work as a variable font now.  (I can now select from Regular to Extra Bold).

[kenmcd]

2 hours ago, Joachim_L said:

The copy from Google on Windows turns Ukulele in Alternate 1 to Vkulele and Alternate 2 turns it into Uk_vlele.

There is a localization for the Latin language, not the Latin script, the actual old Latin language.
And those alternates just happened to end up as the alternates you saw.
Normally these would be used when the user selects Latin as the language in their editor.

1 hour ago, RaWa said:

Now it works fine. It also seems to work as a variable font now.  (I can now select from Regular to Extra Bold).

No, Google Fonts just fixed the names inside the fonts.
In an older version the fonts were in four separate Typographic Families (probably the fonts you had, which is why I wanted to see the actual fonts).
So in APub you would see these as separate fonts, not as one family with separate Typographic Font Styles.
And why you could not select ExtraBold when EB Garamond was the family selected (it only had R, I, B, BI).
Now, in the newer version, all the Font Styles show-up in the single EB Garamond Typographic Family.

Google Fonts updates (fixes) fonts all the time with no notice or any change in the version number.
Whenever I download fonts from Google Fonts, I add the date to the zip file name.
Only way to know which "version" you have.
Well actually, the modification date is usually different inside the font files