Duplicate glyph with different names but same unicode

LettError / glyphBrowser

A RoboFont extension for browsing and selecting unicode values, glyphnames, categories, lists.

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Duplicate glyph with different names but same unicode #19

Closed typoman closed 3 years ago

typoman commented 3 years ago

If a glyph with a certain Unicode exists but its name doesn't match with the glyphBrowser database, it will be added to the font. This will create a duplicate Unicode in the font, meaning two glyphs with different names but the same Unicode. There are two options to fix this:

glyphBrowser should not add a glyph, they already exist.
glyphBrowser can ask if it can rename already existing ones to match the database.

What do you think?

typoman commented 3 years ago

Renaming existing glyphs is a complex task, will just skip the existing Unicode characters.