error message when generating otf

jo

i am trying to export an otf and i get this error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontCompiler/tools/compileTools.py", line 279, in _executeCommand
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontCompiler/tools/compileTools.py", line 318, in embedded_makeotf
  File "makeotf.py", line 1504, in getOptions
  File "makeotf.py", line 1520, in checkInputFile
  File "makeotf.py", line 1945, in convertFontIfNeeded
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontTools/misc/py23.py", line 131, in tounicode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)

is there a way to figure if this is an issue with my ufo?
(robofont 3.2 on 10.10)
thanks j

frederik

but having a control char somewhere in the font info is never a good plan (you have the control character 0x80 somewhere)

frederik

I guess it goes wrong a bit earlier...

could you enable save FKD parts next to the UFO in the prefs and see if there are raw fonts generated?

It cannot read the binary font file...
can you send the UFO file?

https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko/blob/develop/python/afdko/makeotf.py#L1945

UNSOLVED error message when generating otf