Asterism behaving oddly in Noto Sans/Serif

[simoncozens]

Describe the issue

This is a continuation of notofonts/noto-fonts#2215.

Noto Sans and Noto Serif contain glyphs for U+2042 ASTERISM. The fonts in the google/fonts repo contain glyphs for this codepoint in all weights. However, on the GF website, these glyphs are only available in SemiBold and heavier weights. I can understand that the subsetter might be doing something strange with this codepoint, but I can't understand why it only appears in certain weights.

To Reproduce

https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Serif?query=noto+serif&preview.text=⁂&preview.text_type=custom and scroll down to the styles section.

Expected behavior

All styles should contain an asterism glyph.

[seths10]

can I take a look at it?

[RosaWagner]

@simoncozens Could it be a similar issue to #4820 ?

[simoncozens]

Asterism isn't in any glyphset. There's a consistent (but weird) problem where italic styles get all the glyphs but roman ones don't. I'm writing it up for eng.