From 6d925f5b9a6e1b58765ee09fe8552b75f75241c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Just <Just@4cde692c-a291-49d1-8350-778aa11640f8>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:36:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] workaround for odd-length unicode strings (!)

git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/fonttools/code/trunk@126 4cde692c-a291-49d1-8350-778aa11640f8
---
 Lib/fontTools/ttLib/tables/_n_a_m_e.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/ttLib/tables/_n_a_m_e.py b/Lib/fontTools/ttLib/tables/_n_a_m_e.py
index 62bd14601..8bcf69cf4 100644
--- a/Lib/fontTools/ttLib/tables/_n_a_m_e.py
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/ttLib/tables/_n_a_m_e.py
@@ -89,7 +89,12 @@ class NameRecord:
 						])
 		writer.newline()
 		if self.platformID == 0 or (self.platformID == 3 and self.platEncID in (0, 1)):
-			writer.write16bit(self.string)
+			if len(self.string) % 2:
+				# no, shouldn't happen, but some of the Apple
+				# tools cause this anyway :-(
+				writer.write16bit(self.string + "\0")
+			else:
+				writer.write16bit(self.string)
 		else:
 			writer.write8bit(self.string)
 		writer.newline()