Fixes broken italic (oblique) styles. The issue was that component decomposition did not happen in the correct order for some glyphs

misc/pylib/fontbuild/Build.py

@@ -98,15 +98,13 @@ class FontProject:
             log(">> Italicizing")
             i = 0
             for g in f:
-                i += 1
-                if i % 10 == 0: print g.name
-
-                if g.name == "uniFFFD":
-                    continue
-
                 decomposeGlyph(f, g)
                 removeGlyphOverlap(g)
 
+            for g in f:
+                i += 1
+                if i % 10 == 0: print g.name
+
                 if g.name in self.lessItalic:
                     italicizeGlyph(f, g, 9, stemWidth=stemWidth,
                                    meanYCenter=italicMeanYCenter,
@@ -162,6 +160,7 @@ class FontProject:
             'version':      getcfg('version'),
             'license':      getcfg('license'),
             'licenseURL':   getcfg('licenseURL'),
+            'italicAngle':  float(getcfg('italicAngle', '-12')),
         })
 
         if not self.compatible:

misc/pylib/fontbuild/instanceNames.py

@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ class InstanceNames:
     designerURL = ""
     license = ""
     licenseURL = ""
-    
+    italicAngle = -12
+
     def __init__(self,names):
         if type(names) == type(" "):
             names = names.split("/")
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ class InstanceNames:
         f.info.macintoshFONDName = re.sub(' ','',self.longfamily) + " " + re.sub(' ','',self.longstyle)
         f.info.postscriptFontName = f.info.macintoshFONDName.replace(" ", "-")
         if self.italic:
-            f.info.italicAngle = -12.0
+            f.info.italicAngle = self.italicAngle
         
     
     def setFLNames(self,flFont):