[smc-discuss] Standardizing glyph names in fonts

[Prime Jyothi]

Dear All,

On New year's eve, Rajeesh K Nambiar conducted a nice font training 
session. During the session he mentioned that the glyph names in 
different Malayalam Unicode fonts maintained by SMC are not standardized 
and this is causing a bit of problems in the maintenance of different fonts.

Here is a small utility I have developed that will help in renaming the 
glyphs in the font SFD files : https://github.com/primejyothi/glyphRen
It takes a reference file that contains the Unicode Code points and the 
corresponding names and rename the glyphs in the SFD file based on that. 
The composite characters will be renamed based on the constituent glyphs.

I used the names from Rachana font as the reference and tested 
AnjaliOldLipi, Dyuthi, Kalyani, Meera, Rachana, RaghuMalayalamSans and
Suruma and found that renaming worked and it didn't break the fonts.

Hope this utility will make things little bit easy for the font maintainers.

I would like to thank Rajeesh for the fonts training and answering my 
questions I had during the development of this program. Needless to say, 
this program is dedicated to him for teaching me the first glyphs of 
Malayalam fonts.

Regards,
Prime
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