Custom Code Point Ranges

In addition to the total replacement of Dingbat Fonts, there’s also sometimes another option. Many standards or their variants reserve areas for custom characters. This is sometimes referred to as a code page.

ASCII had Extended ASCII variants for additional character sets. Unicode has rendered these mostly obsolete aside from their value as sources of font data and historical value. However, Unicode also reserves similar Private Use Area blocks of code points for custom code points.

This is how a number of constructed languages and scripts provide glyphs, including:

• Klingon, per their wiki page on one of the proposed encodings

• A proposal for Tengwar, one of the scripts J.R.R. Tolkein invented for The Lord of the Rings