New fonts and non-ASCII characters

[katze]

Hello,
I just discovered this great project while looking for a way to script the creation of svg from dynamic texts.

I saw that there were already a lot of fonts: https://github.com/abey79/vpype/tree/master/vpype/fonts but none with all the characters used in French like: éêèçàùî

How can I add these characters? Besides, what is this pickle format?

[abey79]

Hi @katze.

The current font situation in vpype is sub-optimal. What i've done so far is "stealing" the fonts from the axi project and pickle them instead of storing them in Python source format (pickle is a python-native binary format). This is neither standard, nor easily extensible. These fonts (or similar ones) exists in SVG format (e.g.here). Adding i18l glyphs would be much easier with these.

So ideally the first step would be to add support for SVG fonts to vpype, which would then enable using custom fonts with the needed glyphs.