U+05F1 bad glyph (vov-yud glyph has yud then vav)

[mhd]

The glyph for U+05F1 (HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH VAV YOD) is wrong.
It is supposed to look just like a VAV followed by a YOD. I.e., VAV part should be on the right, YOD part on the left.
But instead it looks like the opposite: YOD followed by a VAV.
This presumably dates back to the early Unicode catalog  (pre-3.0), which showed a picture of this glyph the wrong way, i.e., in reversed order just as in this font.
I've attached a screen shot of BabelMap showing  the bad glyph for U+05F1 highlighted.
Please consult any current version of the Unicode Hebrew block for a picture of how the glyph should look.
E.g., here:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0590.pdf
Thanks.

[tiro_hudson]

Confirmed: this is a bug. I will get it fixed immediately and provide a new font build to SBL before the end of today.

This appears to be a regression problem, because it was fixed in a previous version, but I must have had some reason to revert to an earlier glyph source and missed this bug.

[tiro_hudson]

I have fixed this bug, and have delivered a new build of the font to SBL. I'll post an announcement here as soon as the new version is available for download from the SBL website.

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