Extracting glyphs into plain text

[yaaama]

Is it possible to extract all of the characters and symbols from a nerd font ttf file?

So I wanted the symbols and their description to be extracted from the "NerdFontSymbolsOnly" release so that I can keep it in a plain text file and traverse over it with dmenu to search for icons when needed.

Currently I have been trying to copy them using fontforge but I really don't know what I am doing as font stuff is out of my depth.

So I was just wondering if that was something that was possible and if I could get some ideas/help on how to do that (if it is possible).

Thanks 🙏

[Finii]

Not sure what you want/need.

All icon names are in the glyphnames.json file.
You can use jq to extract the content in any plain text way you need.

Or do you want the outlines as text (i.e. svgs)?

[yaaama]

That is exactly what I was hoping for! I'm not familiar with jq, would you please help me turn the JSON data into something like this:

  address-book; f2b9
[glyph] [name of glyph];  [glyph code]

Thank you for the help

[Finii]

Maybe

$ cat glyphnames.json | jq -r 'to_entries[] | "\(.value.char) \(.key); \(.value.code)"'

Note that this also create the useless METADATA line, I assume you can delete it ;)

[yaaama]

You are the best! Thank you so much!