MakeOTFShellError?

[lukecharsley]

Hi,

Generate font stops working seemingly after building accented glyphs and I receive this error.

If someone can see what I'm doing wrong I would be very grateful, thanks.

[frederik]

This does not delete the wrongly named glyph, just in case you store your best drawing there...

"""
Uncomment what you need: read from file and save
or get the current font

Best would be to read and fix the .ufo directly
"""
import defcon

# f = defcon.Font("path/to/font.ufo")
f = CurrentFont().asDefcon()

if "" in f.keys():
    f[""].name = "has_a_weird_empty_name_please_change_it"

# f.save()

good luck

[frederik]

How do you end up with a glyph with no name (empty string)?

this is not allowed :( the kid needs a name

lots will go wrong in different unexpected places

[lukecharsley]

Hey @roberto-arista, yes it's 3.5b Big Sur. Although I think I figured out the problem, which is that there was a glyph without a name in the file, which has now snowballed into a new problem (I can't export a font if the font has a glyph with a name with a value less than 1). I'm currently trying to figure out how to fix it but perhaps I should post as a new topic.

[roberto arista]

Hi @lukecharsley, can you post some details of your roboFont version? which build? which OS?

Thanks!