Chinese fonts failing with various errors

[dhowe]

At very least these should be caught and a friendly(er) error message provided

p5.js:13 Uncaught Error: Only format 4 cmap tables are supported.
    at Object.exports.argument (p5.js:13)
    at Object.parseCmapTable [as parse] (p5.js:2778)
    at parseBuffer (p5.js:1051)
    at p5.js:1154
    at XMLHttpRequest.request.onload (p5.js:1000)



p5.js:243 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'glyphIndexMap' of null
    at Object.addGlyphNames (p5.js:243)
    at parseBuffer (p5.js:1121)
    at p5.js:1154
    at XMLHttpRequest.request.onload (p5.js:1000)

[limzykenneth]

@dhowe Just got around to testing this. I've tested a few Chinese fonts from both Adobe and independent foundries and it works as expected with no errors. Do you have a sample of the font that is throwing the errors? I would like to have a test and perhaps a closer look at it.

[dhowe]

unfortunately i don't have the font any longer -- lets keep an eye on this though (also relates to #3012)

however, i would still argue for wrapping the code above in try/catch at least (since we know that improperly formatted fonts will fail), and then outputting a more friendly error msg

[limzykenneth]

@dhowe catching the error and throw a better error message seems a good way forward for me, but let's continue on #3012

[TanviKumar]

What is the status of this issue currently?

[limzykenneth]

@TanviKumar Can't reproduce probably. Can be closed in my opinion.

[dhowe]

Closing this until/unless we find another case