Thanks, everyone for you input. Its nice to be showered w/ very competent assistance. We haven't be able to justify paying for this kind of font, because we only need a character or two out of the cast of thousands.
A kind soul from this list created the font I was looking for. I won't mention his name, for fear he'd get swamped w/ requests for custom fonts. Thanks. After I got that font, I got this link. This article looks very helpful for all those curious about creating fonts for surrogate pairs. LLTI (long live the internet) --Erik O -----Original Message----- From: David J. Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:52 PM To: Ostermueller, Erik Subject: RE: creating a test font w/ CJKV Extension B characters. Erik, If you go to my web page at http://scholarsfonts.net/Adding%20Supplementary%20Chars.pdf you will find info that will enable you to get U+20050, or other characters outside the BMP, into a font. There are a number of other issues regarding support for Far Eastern fonts, particularly when they must have more than 64,000 glyphs, that I know nothing about. But the page I refer to above will enable you to do what you describe in your message. If you are not experienced with fonts, I'd suggest getting somebody's permissino to use a set of Latin characters rather than creating your own, since there's quite a learning curve involved. Then add the one SIP character you need. Regards, David > I'd like to create a test font that contains a > a standard US Latin alphabet and the following characters: > > \u5000 > \u20050 > > We need this for testing a software app that supports > GB18030. My main problem is that I don't know beans about > fonts. Could someone recommend a good tutorial or 'font > creator' application that addresses surrogate pairs?
