3rd party Unicode font problem in Entourage emails

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klpenner

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

I use a 3rd party Unicode font (Charis SIL AmArea, <http://scripts.sil.org/SILEntityFonts)> and keyboard layout (my own) to access special characters and accents for an indigenous Mexican language. Although they work fine in Word, TextEdit and Apple Mail, they work erratically when keyboarding an HTML message in Entourage. That is, sometimes the characters will display and sometimes they won't. The problematic characters are U+A78C ꞌ LATIN SMALL LETTER SALTILLO (a recent addition to Unicode 5.1), U+0268 ɨ LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE and U+0197 Ɨ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH STROKE. Combining accents also don't work properly with this font. Any suggestions?
 
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klpenner

It seems that the problem isn't with the font but with they keyboard layout since I see now that it doesn't work with the Microsoft fonts either and they should at least be able to access the ɨ and Ɨ, which are not recent editions to Unicode. Why would the keyboard layout work in other programs and not in Entourage?
 
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