<![CDATA[Glyph Construction ASCII saving error]]>If using an emdash in comments, glyph construction fails to save the file without a dialogue warning it won't save. 'Saved' file opens blank.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "lib/doodleDelegate.pyc", line 96, in sendEvent_
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/vanilla/dialogs.py", line 119, in completionHandler_
    self._resultCallback(self._result)
  File "/Users/Dave/Library/Application Support/RoboFont/plugins/GlyphConstruction.roboFontExt/lib/glyphConstructionController.py", line 812, in _saveFile
    f.write(txt)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 2-33: ordinal not in range(128)
]]>https://forum.robofont.com/topic/822/glyph-construction-ascii-saving-errorRSS for NodeTue, 14 Jul 2026 19:10:51 GMTWed, 18 Mar 2020 04:36:11 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Glyph Construction ASCII saving error on Wed, 18 Mar 2020 09:59:12 GMT]]>If using an emdash in comments, glyph construction fails to save the file without a dialogue warning it won't save. 'Saved' file opens blank.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "lib/doodleDelegate.pyc", line 96, in sendEvent_
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/vanilla/dialogs.py", line 119, in completionHandler_
    self._resultCallback(self._result)
  File "/Users/Dave/Library/Application Support/RoboFont/plugins/GlyphConstruction.roboFontExt/lib/glyphConstructionController.py", line 812, in _saveFile
    f.write(txt)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 2-33: ordinal not in range(128)
]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/3119https://forum.robofont.com/post/3119Wed, 18 Mar 2020 09:59:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Glyph Construction ASCII saving error on Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:04:33 GMT]]>fixed!

see https://github.com/typemytype/GlyphConstruction/commit/56e6d49533d3124ee28b887846c06cae5abbd35b

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/3120https://forum.robofont.com/post/3120Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:04:33 GMT