Mapping a glyph name to small caps

Scripting
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Is there some function to get a matching small cap name for a given glyph name? Something like this:

>> getSmallCapName("AEacute")
aeacute.sc
2

To answer my own question:

g = GSGlyphsInfo.alloc().init()
print(f"{g.lowerCaseName_('AEacute')}.sc")
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I don’t understand how that’s different from

print("%s.sc" % "AEacute".lower())
4

Ah, maybe I was thinking that I would need the reverse operation eventually: aeacute.sc → AEacute. But the GSGlyphsInfo method doesn’t solve that either :-/

5

The official way is to use the Unicode (or better info.unicharString() and do a lower()/upper() on it.

Have a look at the headers of GSGlyphsInfo and GSGlyphInfo in the GlyphsCore framework. There are some useful methods for stuff like this.

6

Thank you!

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You may be lucky with .lower() in most cases but it will fail on glyph names such as yuReversed-cy or Adieresis.loclDEU etc. The uppercase/lowercase relationship is a bit more delicate than simply casefolding everything.