Mine changed too, so I doubt it's your preferences. It's either an upgrade in Fontlab, or it might have happened (for me at least) when I installed Fontographer demo to get different different encoding options for the font window. It's a little annoying because double clicking on the cell no longer automatically puts the components in there.

... it might have happened (for me at least) when I installed Fontographer demo to get different different encoding options for the font window ..

Same for you, Nick?

Perhaps a shared resource file got changed -- a mapping from Unicode numbers to common glyph names.

Could it be related to this (old) post http://typophile.com/node/82230#comment-464839 (may 2011)?

... by the way the unicode character U+0136 is named uni0136 in the new Adobe font Source Sans Pro ... I checked all the ttf and otf files :).

It's a little annoying because double clicking on the cell no longer automatically puts the components in there.

Same for me too.

No, I don't have Fontographer, I abandoned it years ago.

MacOS has problems with these glyph names, hence the change.

André

«Has problems with these glyph names» or «purportedly had problems with these glyph names about 7 years ago»? I've never been able to successfully trigger that bug, in Mac OS X 10.4 or any other version.

What I know though, is that Mac Office 2004 and 2008 couldn't handle when the *commaaccent glyphs had uni-names on Mac OS X 10.5.

Love the guillemet usage, Jens! :-)

hhp

But I can't remember having updated FL lately and all commaaccent glyphs used to have names. Why the change?

Edit: And how do I restore it?

Why the change?

As mentioned, apparently an issue with Mac OS X. Adam goes into more detail here:
http://www.typophile.com/node/36473#comment-223275

Edit: And how do I restore it?

To get the automatic-component function working with the new names, you could add some definitions to the alias.dat file (which apparently was not updated to reflect the changes to the encoding tables). Add lines for commaaccent characters such as:

uni0122 G+commaccent
uni0136 K+commaaccent
uni013B L+commaaccent

The file is in FL's global Data folder— try /Library/Application Support/FontLab/Data on Mac, or \My Documents\FontLab\Shared\Data on Windows, or just run a search.