When using GoogFonts.poppins the non-breaking hypen: ‑ (U+2011) is displayed as a small underscore instead of a hyphen on Android devices

[MichaelTamm]

Package

google_fonts

Existing issue?

• I checked the existing issues

What happened?

Expected vs actual result:

Expected: The non-breaking hypen should be displayed as a hyphen
Actual: The non-brekaing hyphen is displayed as a small underscore (See attached screenshot).

Steps to reproduce:

Here is a minimal Flutter app to reproduce this problem:

Note: I could not reproduce it with https://dartpad.dev !? But the error should be reproducible on an Android device.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:google_fonts/google_fonts.dart';

void main() => runApp(MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      title: 'Non-Breaking Hyphen Demo',
      debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
      home: MyDemoPage(),
    );
  }
}

class MyDemoPage extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        title: Text('Non-Breaking Hyphen Demo'),
      ),
      body: Center(
        child: Column(
          mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
          crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.center,
          children: [
            Text('Default-Font:', style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.bold)),
            SizedBox(height: 5),
            Text('With normal hyphen: E-Mail'),
            SizedBox(height: 5),
            Text('With non-breaking hyphen: E\u{2011}Mail'),
            SizedBox(height: 25),
            Text('Poppins:', style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.bold)),
            SizedBox(height: 5),
            Text('With normal hyphen: E-Mail', style: GoogleFonts.poppins()),
            SizedBox(height: 5),
            Text('With non-breaking hyphen: E\u{2011}Mail', style: GoogleFonts.poppins()),
          ],
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

Relevant log output

No response

[jeroen-meijer]

We're experiencing the same issue with DM Sans.

See the images below (using the French string "entre‑temps." containing the hyphen in question).

Note

We've only observed this issue on Android. It does not happen on iOS.

Roboto	DM Sans