I am looking for the best/easiest way to get the unicode and the unicode category of a glyph. The unicode itself is part of the RGlyph object, but not the unicode category, right?

I tried investigating @erik’s glyphNameFormatter and @jens’ RFUnicodeInfo, but did not find the right thing yet. Should I be looking elsewhere?

Thanks in advance for your help!

to get the unicode for a glyph you can use RGlyph.autoUnicodes.

to get unicode categories I would try using the data provided by the Unicode Consortium. I’ve found these:

• A Categorization of Unicode Characters
• Categories.txt

you can write a script to load data from Categories.txt, and then search for the unicode value to get its category.

hope this helps! let us know if it works…

# load categories data from txt file
filePath = '/Users/gferreira/Desktop/Categories.txt'
with open(filePath, 'r') as f:
    rawData = f.readlines()

# convert raw data into dict
categories = {}
for line in rawData:
    uni, gc, level1, level2, level3, level4, name = line.split('\t')
    categories[uni] = level1, level2, level3, level4

# get unicode for glyph
g = CurrentGlyph()
g.autoUnicodes()
print(g.name)
print(g.unicode)

if g.unicode is not None:

    # convert unicode integer to hexadecimal
    uni = "%X" % g.unicode
    uni = uni.zfill(4)
    print(uni)

    # get category for unicode value
    if uni in categories:
        print(categories[uni])

>>> fi
>>> 64257
>>> FB01
>>> ('Letter', 'Ligature', '', '')

from glyphNameFormatter import GlyphName

g = GlyphName(65)
print(g.uniRangeName)
g = GlyphName(1234)
print(g.uniRangeName)

for example, the first codepoint in your script belongs to the Basic Latin range, and the second to Cyrillic. but both glyphs belong to the category Letter.

from glyphNameFormatter.data import unicodeCategories

print(unicodeCategories[65])

import glyphNameFormatter.reader
name = "flyingSaucer"
value = 0x1F6F8

# unicode to name
print(glyphNameFormatter.reader.u2n(value))
> "flyingSaucer"

# name to unicode
print(glyphNameFormatter.reader.n2u(name))
> 128760

# unicode to category
print(glyphNameFormatter.reader.u2c(value))
> "So"

# name to category
print(glyphNameFormatter.reader.n2c(name))
> "So"