support umlauted characters in kerning pair dict

[teetow]

Currently, the KP dict doesn't work for umlauted characters (åäö etc). I tried digging into the code but sleepy head not compute.

This is the KP working with non-umlauted characters:

This is the KP not working when using the å character:

[teetow]

Well, wouldn't you believe it: The Gosh Darned Robot gave me the workaround.

Instead of "å," use the glyph name ("aring" in this case) and it'll work just fine.

Would obviously be neat if that didn't have to happen (I haven't the faintest idea how to dig glyph names out of a font) but at least I can make my signage pretty now =)

Thanks for an absolute lifesaver of an addon btw. Loved the talk video too.

[stenson]

Hi @teetow — thanks for filing the issue, and glad you figured it out! (Can I ask which robot?) I wish there was a good way to automatically map characters like å to aring, but it all depends on the font (I think sometimes it might be called like a.ring or something like that), but I could definitely add a button next to the KP field that would print out the names of all the glyphs in your current bit of text.

[teetow]

So I used the "debug with Copilot" thing in the sidebar. Kinda handy for quickly getting acquainted with unfamiliar code.