These are obviously official UC names. Can I rename them? Any advice?
mediumrightpointinganglebracketornament [U+276D]
mediumleftpointinganglebracketornament [U+276C]
heavyleftpointinganglebracketornament [U+2770]
heavyrightpointinganglebracketornament [U+2771]
heavySingleTurnedCommaQuotationMarkOrnament [U+275B]
heavySingleCommaQuotationMarkOrnament [U+275C]
heavyDoubleTurnedCommaQuotationMarkOrnament [U+275D]
heavyDoubleCommaQuotationMarkOrnament [U+275E]
These names are not so much official as they are based on the Unicode standard.
For commonly used characters Glyphs contains definitions for much more compact names, but that approach does not scale well to all of Unicode. However, you can define custom names either using a custom glyph data file
or defining a custom glyph name in a single Glyphs file (Edit → Info for Selection…).
Thanks Florian, I know about making GlypData.xml custom. My concerne is will I screew something up elsewhere in the workflow shortening this names?
For the most part it should just work. Ensure that the Unicode code point and associated glyph properties (category, case, …) are unchanged after you rename the glyph (viewable in Edit → Info for Selection…).
There might be some extensions or other systems expecting specific names, but that is rare. Once exported, the names are replaced by the production name anyway, so these names are never included in the exported font file.
Danke.
Those names are not nice. If you come up with better ones, I’ll consider changing the default.
Went what’s understandable and good enough for me:
bigGuilsinglright
bigGuilsinglleft
bigGuillemetright
bigGuillemetleft
bigQuoteleft
bigQuoteright
bigQuotedblleft
bigQuotedblright