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frankrolf/character_to_glyphname.py

Created August 9, 2018 19:20
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character_to_glyphname.py
# coding: utf-8
import pprint
from fontTools import agl
characters = u'Loïc Sander Nick Sherman Tânia Raposo Frank Grießhammer'
for char in characters:
# ord(char) is the decimal Unicode value for a given character
# agl.UV2AGL is a dictionary that maps those Unicode values to glyph names
print(agl.UV2AGL.get(ord(char)))
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