Re: PfaEdit and Unicode questions

Dirk Elzinga wrote at 2003-05-14 13:06:41 (-0600)
 > Hey.
 >
 > I have a question for the PfaEdit and Unicode people. I have sets of
 > outline characters for the Futhark (Unicode 16A0-16FF) and the Deseret
 > Alphabet (Unicode 10400-1044F) which I created using PfaEdit. How do I
 > create usable Unicode fonts from them? And just how do I use Unicode
 > fonts? Is it possible to just type them in? In case it helps, I have a
 > Macintosh G4 running OS X (10.2.6), and a G4 Powerbook, also running OS
 > X. The version of Word I'm running (no, it's not an option yet to chuck
 > Word) is version X, and it's supposed to be Unicode capable.
 >

I've got PfaEdit on Linux (although I've not used it much), and if
it's the same program you should be able to make one of your fonts
into a Unicode version by going to Element > Font Info > Encoding >
ISO 10646-1.  Then put your characters in the appropriate locations
and save it.  I mean, it looks like this should work.

As for entering them... I've no clue as to what's possible with OS X
and Word, but at worst there are various Unicode editors which present
different input methods for different scripts, and I'm sure that such
are available for your platform.