.replace() to change letter into a different glyph

[LiamCarlin]

Hey Guys,

I have the source text of a layer referencing the comp name. I'd to edit the comp name and it update on the text layer. This is my code.

compName = comp("Liam Carlin").name.replace(/a/gi,"a");

However I am not trying to replace the letter a with the same letter a I wasnt to replace it with a different glyph version of that font family. Is it possible? I am unable to paste the correct glyph letter into the expression editor as it just see it as the letter 'a'.

Thanks

Liam 

[Mylenium]

You need to force it with string.fromCharCode().

Mylenium

[LiamCarlin]

Thanks Mylenium, I'll dig into this and if stuck will get back! Cheers 🙂

[LiamCarlin]

Where would I be going wrong from here?

compName = comp("Liam Carlin").name.replace(/a/gi, String.fromCharCode(u+0061));

Thanks

Liam

[Mylenium]

I'm not clear what you are asking. You need to explain better what you are having issues with.

Mylenium

[LiamCarlin]

Thanks Mylenium,

So I am trying to replace the letter 'a' with a different style 'a'. The first image titled 'Default a' is the a you get when typed by default. The second image 'Different style a' is the style of a want. Is it possible to access this style a through the String.fromCharCode()?

The 'a' I would like is references as this in the illustrator glyphs pallette u+0061. If input 61 into the method it returns a but the incorrect a.

Thanks

Liam

[Mylenium]

String.fromCharCode() uses the regular decimal code, i.e. the linear enumeration in the order in which the glyphs are stored in the font file/ character set. You need to find out what that number is. There are tables for that.

Mylenium

[LiamCarlin]

Thanks Mylenium. So I can see when referencing the unicode tables that '97' and '0061' both work for a small latin letter a. When I look at the glyph I want in illustrator it give me this.

U+0061 (ss05). So I understand the 0061 is for a small latin letter 'a' but I do not know how to incorporate the 'ss05' as I think this is the actual 'a' that I am after.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Liam

[LiamCarlin]

With a little further digging I used the charCodeAt() Method with the correct 'a' I wanted. I ran this method in the source text. It came back as '97' which is the unicode decimal value for 'a' but not the a I want.

I don't think what I am trying to acheive is possible. Thats a shame but lots learned! 

[Finn Glink]

Hey Liam!
Sorry to dig this up after such a long time, did you ever get this to work?

[LiamCarlin]

Hey Finn,

Unfortunatley I didn't. It's not possible from the AE end. I spoke with Adobe and they said something along the lines of needing to code a actual plugin (c++) to have that kind of functionality and this was a couple of years ago.

The scripting side of things has changed. Check out the changelog from Oct 23 - https://ae-scripting.docsforadobe.dev/introduction/changelog.html

Cheers,

Liam