Trying to remove Unicode-Double-Mapping

[fontdesigner2]

I found an error in my font when I tested it with FontQA. It showed me that I had some glyphs that had somehow picked up double unicode names.

When I click the magic emerald next to the Unicode name field in the rename glyph pop-up window, it actually makes both names appear!

I can't find any way to fix this problem, or know what has caused it.

Can anyone please help?

[Eigi]

Hello,

Assigning multiple unicode values to one glyph is not necessarily a mistake. It is common practice for some glyphs e.g. assigning 0x2126 (OHM SIGN) and 0x03A9 (GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA) to the same glyph. But it makes it impossible to reconstruct the unicode values from a glyph name e.g. when text is copied from a PDF which was distilled from a postscript file. Therefore I prefer to avoid double unicodes.

Best

Eigi

[fontdesigner2]

I would also prefer to avoid this, and it's an error according to FontQA. Do you know how I can remove the second unicode name assigned to these glyphs? I only want them to have one unicode name. I'm about to delete these glyphs and recreate them. That probably won't work either. Nothing I've tried has worked.

[Dezcom]

You have to create the other glyph but use the alternate codepoint.  You then need to name the glyph by its unicode name instead of the name you have.  I do this with the Greek glyphs that also double as math symbols.

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