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Originally Posted by Psymon
But that's what the font(s) that I'm using already do
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Erm... No, if I understood it correctly. Your font does not use the private Unicode slots, but it uses some already reserved slots, for different characters, and makes them look like something different.
And it doesn't have a proper ligature definition, instead it forces you to use specific and foreign characters in your text. Or, if it does, then you are not using it correctly. If you write "ct" in your text, does the font display the ct ligature? If it does, then that part is correct, and you don't need to write the ¢ or whatever it is (but it still should be placed in the private Unicode region).
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So I may as well just stick with what I've got!  After all, it works great, looks great, not to mention there was an enormous amount of work/time that went into creating it -- if I was to change the font, I'd pretty much have to start all over, from scratch.
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As long as it's your personal work, do whatever you think is best for you. And about the last remark, that's precisely one of the things it would solve. If you leave all that ligature handling to the font, you could change fonts without having to change all the text. Suppose you now find a new font that has everything this one has, plus a nice "Th" ligature... you'd have to go back to your text and change all "Th" into "þ" or something like that. If you had it right from the beginning, and the fonts are "correct", all you have to do is change the font.
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But I already have a beautiful free font.
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It shouldn't take very long to "fix" it, as long as the license allows it (and often that's fine as long as you change the font name).