[fontforge-users] Problem with Chinese font (1)

[gyfang via fontforge-users]

I
generated Chinese font for testing with Fontforge which works well in
Adobe Acrobat but does not work in MS Word. Actually I only designed
three glyphs which are "0", "A", and the Chinese character "äž­". The font file is "Zhong0A.ttf". It can be opened by Windows font-viewer like this. They all look fine.But when I apply the font in MS word, only "A" And "0" work, while does not.

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Post by gyfang via fontforge-users
I
generated Chinese font for testing with Fontforge which works well in
Adobe Acrobat but does not work in MS Word. Actually I only designed
three glyphs which are "0", "A", and the Chinese character "?". The font file is "Zhong0A.ttf".
It can be opened by Windows font-viewer like this. They all look fine.But
when I apply the font in MS word, only "A" And "0" work, while does not.

What slot did you put the "zhong" char into? If you put it into
the usual unicode slot for it ( 4E2D, aka 20,013), it's far out
of reach of a western keyboard. And MSWord is not particularly
smart, so I'd be surprised if it had understood how to let you
get at chars in the hanzi range---I have to use dedicated
keyboard mappings just to get 8-bit slavic-language chars without
resorting to charmap..