User Guide

Editing Fonts
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Uni c o de - Re l a t e d O per a t i o ns
Several commands in the Glyph > Glyph Names menu work with the font’s
Unicode information.
Generating Unicode Indexes
To automatically generate Unicode indexes for all the glyphs in the font,
select the Generate Unicode command from the Glyph > Glyph Names
menu.
You will see the dialog box:
This is basically a warning message with an additional feature: it lets you
choose the mapping file. The structure of a mapping file is described below,
but its purpose is simple: to map Unicode indexes to a set of predefined
names.
You select the appropriate file and click OK. Then FontLab will:
1. Remove all Unicode data.
2. Search the name-Unicode database for each glyph’s name.
3. If the name is in the database it adds the Unicode index linked with
this name to the glyph’s list of Unicode indexes.
4. Because the database may link more than one Unicode index with a
name, steps 2 and 3 are processed whenever a glyph’s name is found in
the database.