makeOTF and non-ascii characters

connor

Hi, I'm back with maybe another stupid question. So from what I understand the ufo2fdk will convert non-ascii characters to the correct unicode/macRoman values in the fontmenunamedb. But when attempting to testInstall(), the file won't generate. I ran the same file through the command line with makeotf -f font.ufo -o font.otf and it generates totally fine. I also ran a test through my FDK mastering workflow with the appropriate mac/windows lines, which worked. Is this a limitation of roboFont or am I just blind to my mistake?
The only name tables that can't have non-ascii characters are the postscript tables, correct?
Thanks,
Connor

colinmford

@connor I think i recall @benkiel had some relevant mastering experience with Vēlo...

Any tips, Ben?

connor

Unfortunately, the release mode doesn't help. I also tried setting the testInstall settings to TTF since that's always in release mode..but nothing:( There is also no AFDKO output, only python traceback:

/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python36.zip/lib/doodleFontWindow.py:332: ResourceWarning: unclosed file <_io.BufferedWriter name='/var/folders/1p/78hmxxfx6h12qlgv9j2r10_00000gn/T/tmpzxq0ugvb/font.otf'>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "lib/doodleFontWindow.pyc", line 328, in _compileFont
  File "lib/fontObjects/doodleLayer.pyc", line 295, in generate
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontCompiler/compiler.py", line 148, in generateFont
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontCompiler/baseCompiler.py", line 331, in compile
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontCompiler/baseCompiler.py", line 390, in _makeFDKParts
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe9' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

For the time being I am just removing the 'é' from the font names. I am going to try and investigate the root of the problem this weekend. Thanks, Colin.

colinmford

Try running in "release" mode. Is there any AFDKO output in the output window? (Looking for [Error] and [Fatal] here)

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