Sort anchors alphabetically?

[RosaWagner]

After opening and saving a UFO with Glyphs and running ufonormalizer (before opening and after saving), I still have a diff for the sorting of anchors in each glyphs. I feel that ufonormalizer should take care of everything related to sorting, and alphabetical order as Glyphs does would make sense.

[benkiel]

@RosaWagner so that I understand this:

Step 1: Open a UFO in Glyphs
Step 2: Save UFO from Glyphs
Step 3: Run UFO Normalizer

Expected:
Anchor order doesn't change from Step 1 vs Step 3

Actual:
Anchor order is different from Step 1 vs Step 3, implying that Glyphs re-ordered the anchors and the normalizer didn't enforce an order

Is that the correct understanding of the situation?

[RosaWagner]

So actually I realised I used a less straightforward process, and it is not Glyphs alone that is re-ordering the anchors.

1. I opened a normalized UFO in Glyphs (order of anchors is top, bottom, right)
2. I saved as Glyphspackage
3. I exported back the UFO using glyphsLib (there the top anchors goes at the bottom of the list)
4. I normalized again (top anchor still at the bottom of the list)

• If I use Glyphs to import and export: no reordering
• If I use glyphsLib to import and export: no reordering
• If I use glyphsLib to import and Glyphs to export: no reordering
• If I use Glyphs to import, glyphsLib to export: reordering

I have been doing a lot of tests lately to find the best workflow between Glyphs/Robofont using git.