I’d tell him to start using XeTeX+fontspec , if he already isn’t (link: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=xetex ). Solves all your unicode problems.
Then, all he has to do is to insert the character directly in the .tex file and select a system font (using fontspec) that has its glyph. -- Leonardo Boiko
