& Ampersand in Stylistic Set Name doesn't show up in Adobe Apps

Glyphs
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What’s going on here? I can put in any other non-ASCII character too?
I even tried adding this in the stylistic feature:

featureNames {
   name "Alternate &"; # Windows (default)
   name 3 1 0x0409 "Alternate &"; # 3=Windows, 1=Unicode, 0409=English(US)
   name 1 "Alternate &"; # 1=Mac
   name 1 0 59 "Alternate \26"; # 1=Mac, 0=MacRoman, 59=English
};
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It’s (another) Adobe bug. When building a menu entry in the UI, an & is used to define the hotkey for that menu entry, e.g. Glyph &Panel will make that menu entry react to pressing the P key. The & itself is not displayed in the result. The CC apps don’t take that into account, so the & always disappears. They would have to escape it in the input for building the menu entry.

We reported that bug years ago, but nothing happened yet.

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Wondering what other things one can put in the label that will be handled unescaped. May if someone found something that can be labeled as a security bug it will be finally fixed.

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I see, so there’s no way to escape the ampersand character?

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Jens, how did you find out about that? :exploding_head:

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You could put a && in the feature name, but that would be displayed as a double ampersand everywhere else but in the Adobe CC menu.

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Two things coming together:

  • TheSans really has many ampersands
    Bildschirmfoto 2023-11-01 um 12.51.34
  • I remembered from my attempts at writing Windows software about 25 years ago that ampersands were used to mark the hotkeys in menu entries :slight_smile:

(TheSans is not produced with Glyphs, but the issue is not Glyphs-specific)

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I knew about most of those in TheSans, but I’d never seen the heart ampersand :heart_eyes: