How to change the default sorting so that characters are sorted by unicode?

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How to change the default sorting so that characters are sorted by unicode?

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I think you’ll need to use a glyphOrder parameter (or a list filter).

Go to the font view, view as a list, sort by unicode, copy all glyph names and use them in a glyphOrder parameter or a list filter.

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What do you need this for?

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Compare two fonts in the window.

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G3 prioritizes sorting by glyph name.

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I know.

Click here:
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Then you get a list view of all glyphs. Sort by Unicode like this:
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This makes it impossible to compare shapes.

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Did you even read my first suggestion?

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I need to sort by unicode under the big picture.

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Can you please read my first response?

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If this was a task I wanted to do I would copy the second font into the background of the first font. Then I would not have to worry about sorting. Mekkablue’s script “Copy Layer to Layer” is what I would use to do the copying.

If you have other stuff already in the background you don’t want to lose, duplicate the layer so you have a backup of it.

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What character ranges you are looking at?

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I want to compare the Chinese character outlines of a certain Unicode block in two font files, but the character names in the two files are different and the ordering is also different, so it is very time-consuming to find the same character for comparison.

Is it possible to add a right-click selection sorting method in the font window?

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Unicode’s Chinese character blocks often have thousands of Chinese characters, and sorting is very important for the processing of Chinese character fonts.

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Name of CJK Ideographs should be start with uniXXXX or uXXXXX (for CJK ext. B~I block).

If not (CID?), try to converts glyph name to nice, human-readable glyph name before comparison.

for this_layer in Glyphs.font.selectedLayers:
	glyph_name = this_layer.parent.name
	if Glyphs.niceGlyphName(glyph_name):
		print(f"{this_layer.parent.name} -> {Glyphs.niceGlyphName(glyph_name)}")
		this_layer.parent.name = Glyphs.niceGlyphName(glyph_name)
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Excuse me, where should this code be placed?

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You have to first select the glyphs you want to rename and then run this code in your Macro Panel.

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This really is the last time I’m going to try.

Have you tried the method I described above? Sort by Unicode in both documents and copy that list as a list filter or glyphOrder parameter?

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You don’t need a script to update the glyph names. First, check Font Info > Other > “Use custom naming” is unchecked. Then select all glyphs in Font View and run Glyph > Update Glyph Info. Do that in both fonts and the names and sorting should be the same in both fonts.

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… which is also by Unicode in the case of the Chinese ranges.

What exactly do you want to compare? Glyph set? Shapes?