Robofab within FontLab, autoUnicodes() for commaaccent glyphs

[Martin Wenzel]

Hi there,

While working on a Latin Extended Set I found that autoUnicodes gives me no value for any glyph containing “commaaccent” (‘kcommaaccent’ for example), all others are fine. Do others experience that problem in FontLab too?

Best,
Martin

[Ben Kiel]

Martin,

This will happen with anything that uses the Adobe Glyph List (AGL) —like robofab and I think FontLab— to assign unicode values to glyph names: if the glyph name isn’t in the list, Robofab doesn’t know what the corresponding unicode value is.

Best,
Ben

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[Frank Grießhammer]

If you need coverage beyond the AGL, you might want to use the data here:
https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/adobe-latin-charsets

from a two-dimensional keyboard

[Martin Wenzel]

Thank you Ben, thank you Frank,

I had assumed that the agl is the source for information regarding autoUnicodes() but I wasn’t sure which particular document would act as the reference.

I see that the fontTools’ agl.py has the following comment in it, which actually explains my issue:

# Table version: 1.7
# Date: November 6, 2008
[ . . . ]
# - Removed mappings for "commaaccent" names. These should now be
# assigned "uni" names.

I know what to do, thanks.

Best,
Martin

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