I need to use special characters out of the font Lucida Sans Unicode in an FM database. MS Word allows me to allocate shortcut keys off the keyboard to type them into a document. Is there anything similar for FM so that I can get those characters into text in FM fields? I seem to be limited to only the characters that are accessed through the standard keyboard. I would ideally also want web published pages to display the font and special characters also. Can anyone point me to a plug-in or a solution?

When you say "special characters", what exactly do you mean? Things like: