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gulp-svgicons2svgfont issue demo

Demonstration of an issue with gulp-svgicons2svgfont since v5.0.0.

When using the option prependUnicode: true, icon added to the source folder will have the unicode codepoint prepended in the filename automatically.

The package svgicons2svgfont (which gulp-svgicons2svgfont depends on) will take care of this file renaming, and make sure that no duplicate unicode codepoints exist.

Example

Suppose you have the following icon files:

• arrow-down.svg
• arrow-up.svg

Running gulp Iconfont will rename these files to:

• uEA01-arrow-down.svg
• uEA02-arrow-up.svg

If you add a new icon file aaa.svg later, and re-run gulp Iconfont, this new icon will be renamed to uEA03-aaa.svg.

Bug

This feature has been broken by 0bc1debf637f68474a44f72aa3954184494d1dbe. It removed usage of the sorting logic from svgicons2svgfont, which makes sure that files which already contain the unicode codepoints will be handled first.

To reproduce

When adding a new file aaa.svg and re-running gulp Iconfont now, the Gulp task will break with this message:

events.js:183
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: The unicode codepoint of the glyph arrow-down seems to be already used by another glyph.

So to reproduce, do this:

$ npm install
$ gulp Iconfont # first time, succeeds
$ cp icons/uEA01-arrow-down.svg icons/aaa.svg
$ gulp Iconfont # second time, breaks