Symbol font keyboard equivalency and not displaying

Glyphs
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Hi
I created a set of symbols. Followed your tutorial Creating an Icon Webfont. I removed all the glyphs and started a new set named uniE001 to uniE032. They all went into the Private Use.

I am not sure what the keyboard equivalency is to the actual symbol. In other words, how do I know which is the key to hit to display the symbols.

I exported them into the Adobe library font, but are not able to see them. I can see the name of the font with a little string of symbols next to it on the font menu of InDesign, but cannot get the symbols. I cleaned the cache already.

I am using Glyph 1.4.4
Any help would be appreciated

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You can’t type characters from the PUA. In Indesign, use the glyph panel, and in HTML use the entity syntax: &#x+E000; (remove the +)

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Thanks that worked in InDesign. Is there an alternative to creating this without then going into the PUA, so that they can actually be typed (correspond to a key in the keyboard) in Applications such as Word, Indesign, and others. Like “ZaptDingbats” for example?

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If you like to type them, you need to assign normal letter names (like ‘A’). But that is not advised for webfonts as screenreader would read them aloud.

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Yes you can type them. There is a Unicode keyboard in your input sources. It is a US keyboard, but if you hold down option, you can type a Unicode value.

Or you can define a shortcut in the keyboard preferences.
[EDIT:] It is not called shortcut, sorry, it’s called text replacement:
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You could use a program like Ukelele to create a keyboard layout that references the PUA glyphs.
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=ukelele

Info for other systems and layouts that may also be useful: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?cat_id=InputResources