Adding glyphs to Fontforge

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user1322720 picture user1322720 · Jan 15, 2015 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

When I open Fontforge to create a new font, it only lists a limited set of characters / glyphs. In the font I create, I need some glyphs that are missing from that default set, e.g. "single right-pointing angle quotation mark" (U+203A) and "single left-pointing angle quotation mark" (U+2039).

How can I add "slots" for these glyphs, or rather:

What is the proper way to add glyphs that are defined in the Unicode table?

Answer

Zephyr picture Zephyr · Aug 19, 2016

Ah, well, just go to Encoding > Add encoding slot, then there will be a dialog to set how many slot(s) you want to add.

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