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Originally Posted by SBT
What about using Fontforge and copying the required glyphs into a new, blank font?
However, converting the font to SVG may be the safest bet.
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Certainly possible, I've done a fair bit of font hacklng, but messy. For one thing, just locating the characters you need in a huge Chinese font isn't easy if you aren't literate in Chinese.
Otherwise, I stay away from SVG. I used some simple SVG (as generated by the Sigil plugin) to make some ad pages that scaled nicely, but they apparently disappeared on some devices and didn't translate to Kindle at all. Impossible to debug when I don't have the devices myself, so I just dumbed the code down.
The scaled image solution is pretty likely to work in all situations, inelegant though it may be.
However, even if any of these these hacks work they make a mess of code that is a pain to edit and maintain.
If it comes up again I'll have another try at making subsetting work efficiently.