Jonathan:

Thank you very much for your reply.

I was using a font I customised myself (with Fontforge). An old document 
with these ligatures in it showed spaces where the ligatures used to 
be. Also, at “Insert special characters” the character set of this font 
was shown without these characters (but with spaces apparently 
reserved for them).

I’ve just opened up the font and discovered, to my embarrassment, that 
the ligatures are at FB00 to FB04––not in the PUA, as I said, but in 
the old “alphabetical presentation forms” block, which was explicitly 
for ligatures before Opentype layout features were thought of (I 
think). Pending the availability of Opentype, I thought this would be 
the best place to put them.

I also tested some commercial Truetype fonts that have ligatures in the 
same block, including Amasis, and the result was the same: just a space 
in the text, and no visible characters in “Insert special characters.” 

So a different problem, but a problem nevertheless, it seems.

Thanks again for your help.

Séamas
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