Weird pasting text bug

Glyphs
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If I select and Copy the following text in TextEdit

•*⸓#⸮⸰/\⸞⸛

then paste these into an edit tab in Glyphs, the paste only pastes the first 6 glyphs: it stops after the /ringpoint and before the /slash.

I actually discovered this pasting from Glyphs to Glyphs: selecting those glyphs in my font (they form a single row in my Font tab) and copying them, then pasting into an edit tab has the same effect.

Making a new tab with those glyphs selected works fine: that is, going to Font tab, selecting that row, then pressing Command-T to make a new tab.

I can paste them from Glyphs into TextEdit just fine (that is in fact, how i got them into TextEdit and how i’m making this post).

For clarity, the glyph names are /bullet/asterisk/dottedobelos/numbersign/questionreversed/ringpoint/slash/backslash/tildedotabove/tilderingabove

(Geneva font has all of these glyphs by the way)

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The slash is used to mark a glyph name when pasting into an Edit View tab. This means, that you can also copy and paste the text

/bullet/asterisk/dottedobelos/numbersign/questionreversed/ringpoint/slash/backslash/tildedotabove/tilderingabove

into Edit View. However, the slash in •*⸓#⸮⸰/\⸞⸛ is also interpreted as such a glyph name indicator and thus Glyphs tries to insert a glyph named \⸞⸛ (which it does not find and thus nothing is pasted after •*⸓#⸮⸰).

Instead, try pasting this in Edit View:

•*⸓#⸮⸰//\⸞⸛

The // is considered by Glyphs as a single slash. In fact, copy

•*⸓#⸮⸰/\⸞⸛

from an Edit View tab and you will actually get

•*⸓#⸮⸰//\⸞⸛

ready to be pasted into another tab.

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I guess all of the above is fine when pasting from a pure text-based app (like Terminal.app).

But at least when pasting from Glyphs to Glyphs, glyphs should put a fully slashed form into the clipboard and use that preferentially (or cut and paste GSLayer objects). Glyphs is in control of both the cut and the paste.

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It does, that is what my last sentence is about.

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Ah, right. Yes, Glyphs gets this right when pasting from and Edit View to another Edit View. I probably would’ve noticed much sooner if it had a bug there.

But it doesn’t get it right when pasting from the Font tab to an Edit View.

The actual original case where i spotted this was when i was pasting the entirety of my Exported Glyphs filter, some 388 glyphs for the current font. It was basically luck that i noticed a few glyphs were missing. And even more luck that a couple of those missing glyphs were actually problems that needed reviewing and i otherwise would’ve missed.

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I see, the slash is not escaped when copying from Font View.

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yeah, i tried to “simplify” it by involving TextEdit, but given what i now know about the slash escaping, i’m not sure that was a good idea.

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Until this is fixed, you can right-click a selection in Font View and choose Slashed from Copy Glyph Names. See:

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Or simply Cmd-T (or double click) in Font view.