This post was helpful to me – thanks @RafaŁ-Buchner and @frederik!
It took me a bit to get everything working, so I thought I'd post my updates here for the next person who needs it.
# a script to find glyphs with unicode names and give them human-readable names
# started from https://forum.robofont.com/topic/624/renaming-the-glyph-problem/6
from glyphNameFormatter.reader import u2n, n2u, u2U
from vanilla.dialogs import *
import pprint
def updateGlyphName(f):
f.features.text = feaText
def getNameFromUnicode(g):
name = u2n(g.unicode)
return name
def getReadableNames(font):
renamingDict = {}
for glyph in font:
old_name = glyph.name
if "uni" in old_name: # and "." not in old_name:
new_name = getNameFromUnicode(glyph)
if new_name is None:
continue
else:
if new_name not in renamingDict.keys():
if new_name != old_name:
renamingDict[old_name] = new_name
for glyph2 in font:
if glyph2.name.split(".")[0] == old_name:
old_name2 = glyph2.name
new_name2 = glyph2.name.replace(old_name, new_name)
if new_name2 not in renamingDict.keys():
if new_name2 != old_name2:
renamingDict[old_name2] = new_name2
pprint.pprint(renamingDict)
renamingDictKeys = list(renamingDict.keys())
for old in reversed(renamingDictKeys):
if old in font.keys():
glyph = font[old]
if len(glyph.contours) != 0:
font.renameGlyph(old, renamingDict[old])
print("\t", old, "→", renamingDict[old])
for glyph2 in font:
for comp in glyph2.components:
if comp.baseGlyph == old:
comp.baseGlyph = renamingDict[old]
renamingDictKeys.remove(old)
for old in reversed(renamingDictKeys):
glyph = font[old]
if len(glyph.contours) == 0:
font.renameGlyph(old, renamingDict[old])
print("\t", old, "→", renamingDict[old])
for glyph2 in font:
for comp in glyph2.components:
if comp.baseGlyph == old:
comp.baseGlyph = renamingDict[old]
# allows you to select one or multiple UFOs
inputFonts = getFile(
"select UFOs", allowsMultipleSelection=True, fileTypes=["ufo"])
for fontPath in inputFonts:
# set showInterface to True if you wish to see the font window
f = OpenFont(fontPath, showInterface=False)
print("----------------------------------\n")
print("----------------------------------\n")
print(f.path, "\n")
print("----------------------------------\n")
getReadableNames(f)
# comment these out to test run
f.save()
f.close()
