problem with keyboard layout and font

FROM : Roland Silver
DATE : Wed Apr 13 19:20:22 2005

I have created a keyboard layout (ModcapUnicode.keylayout) and a font
(ModcapUnicode.ttf) for a special set of characters with codepoints in
the Unicode Private Use Area, U+E620 to U+E67E and U+E6A0 to U+E6FE.

With the ModcapUnicode key layout and font installed and selected,
depressing each of the printing keys or spacebar with modifiers (none,
shift, option, or option-shift) -- displays one of 190 characters
correctly EXCEPT for "2";  depressing the "2" key with no modifiers
displays a "1", not a "2".

Nearby stuff is OK:
KEY        DISPLAYS
1          1
shf-1      !
opt-1      dnArrow
shf-opt-1  upArrow
2          1 (weird!)
shf-2      @
opt-2      lfArrow
opt-shf-2  lfDblArrow
3          3
shf-3      #
opt-3      lfRtArrow
opt-shf-3  lfRtDblArrow

To try this out:
1. Install the layout in /Library/Keyboard Layouts/;
2. Install the font in /Library/Fonts/
3. Log out and in again to get the layout compiled;
4. Go to the International System Preference and check the checkbox to
the left of the Keyboard with Name ModcapUnicode;
5. Launch TextEdit; create a new document; select ModcapUnicode menu
item from the menu that (probably) shows an American flag; hit cmd-T to
bring up the Font selector; select ModcapUnicode; type "123". Read'em &
weep.

Attached is a zip file containing ModcapUnicode.icns,
ModcapUnicode.ttf, and ModcapUnicode.keylayout.

Should I have sent this message to some other Apple list?
--RS