"Add Glyphs" bulk adding for friendly name and unicode name at same time?

Glyphs
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Is it possible during an “Add Glyphs” bulk list addition to have it create the glyphs with both a name and a unicode value?

For instances, I have:

unif000
unif001
unif002
unif003
unif004
unif005
unif006
unif007
unif008
unif009
unif00a
unif00b
unif00c
unif00d

And then the glyph name in the app eads

f0000 f0000

Is it possible to have it add a friendly name and the unicode value upon import, something like:

“Star” unif000
"Car" unif001
"Tree" unif002
"Dog" unif003
etc…

I have a few hundred fonts I want to create like this, and naming them all manually in the UI after the bulk import seems like a ton of work.

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If you want to do this more often, it is a good idea to edit your own glyph data XML:

http://glyphsapp.com/blog/roll-your-own-glyph-data/

If you only do this once, then you just may want to check File > Font Info > Other settings > Don’t use nice names. Then you can edit the Unicode independently.

There is no bulk adding as you described it, but I could write a script for that.

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I’d like to use this kind of simple import as well, XML is too complicated, I never found a way how to make it work :confused:

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  1. Bulk-add with friendly names.
  2. Select the glyphs (perhaps with a List filter) and run this script from my GitHub rep: Glyph Names > Add PUA Unicode Values to Selected Glyphs.