SMuFL Glyphs

Provides immediate Lua access to the glyph names in the SMuFL glyphnames.json file. The glyphs and by_codepoint tables were programmatically generated from it.

Functions

• get_glyph_info(codepoint_or_name, font_info_or_name)
• iterate_glyphs()

get_glyph_info

smufl_glyphs.get_glyph_info(codepoint_or_name, font_info_or_name)

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Returns the SMuFL glyph name and a new table containing the codepoint and its description.

Input	Type	Description
codepoint_or_name	`string	number`
font_info_or_name (optional)	string	or (font_info) the SMuFL font to search for optional glyphs

Return type	Description
string	The glyph name
table	The glyph information

iterate_glyphs

smufl_glyphs.iterate_glyphs()

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Returns an iterator over the standard SMuFL glyphs as defined in glyphnames.json.

Each iteration returns:

1. The glyph name (string)
2. A new table with codepoint and description

Return type	Description
function	An iterator over (string, table)