So, I searched the forum for “dual encoding” and “dual encoded” but found no results. This was a surprise.
I am wondering if there’s something on the development roadmap for dealing with dual-encoded glyphs when importing non-Glyphs source files. It would be great if, when opening a font with dual-encoded glyphs, Glyphs gave a set of options:
remove the higher code point
duplicate the glyph as a composite to the second code point
duplicate the glyph as outlines to the second code point
Or if this was an option that could be set in the Glyphs preferences.
The problem is that the Adobe makeOTF that Glyphs uses to compile fonts does not support it so the handling of double unicodes is not supported property.
Could you send me a sample font with double unicode to help implementing your suggestions. The second option sounds the most reasonable.
Duplicating glyphs (preferably as composites) makes sense for me. I often work with old fonts and such solution for dual encoding would save me some time adding non-breaking hyphens or spaces for instance.
It also will work when you open a CID Font, some characters use the same glyph and if you export as ROS-0 (zero) you will miss all those characters that by default carry multiple encodings
It also will work when you open a CID Font, some characters use the same glyph and if you export as ROS-0 (zero) you will miss all those characters that by default carry multiple encodings