Another case of "I've done this before, but now I cannot make it work"...
Which setting in Fontlab can I sort the glyphs for Adobe apps (Menu>Type>Glyphs)?
No need for all custom set, just not all random as I have it now. Alphabetical order would be nice.
I remember Typophile had an answer to this...
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Note that InDesign’s Glyph palette offers the user two ways of sorting; by CID/GID (default) and by Unicode.
Quoting John Hudson from a Typophile thread (sorry, no URL):
Still, Florian is right — the key is to sort the font itself in the order you wish before generating. If you truly want alphabetical, then Glyph > Sort Glyphs > By Name will do that. (But alphabetical by glyph name, not by character, so something like Eth may not sort where one might want to see Ð.)
If you wish to manually adjust, then switch the Font window to Index mode and rearrange to taste. If you get an customized order that you’d like to propagate to other fonts, then you may wish to save the sorted order as an .enc file using Glyph > Glyph Names > Save Encoding.
(That file needs to live in your Application Support > FontLab > Encoding directory, but I think the Save Encoding dialog defaults to the proper location.)
With a font window in Names mode, you can select your custom encoding from the pop-up menu to view the font in this new order. (You may have to restart after saving the enc file.)
Then use Sort Glyphs > By Encoding to set the actual Glyph ID order to this custom encoding.
HTH.