Goobledygook fonts?

I am using the CS5 suite.
I am about to start work on an annual journal for a client but have struck a strange problem with InDesign CS5. The department the work is for has its own commerically modified fonts which include macrons so that the New Zealand Maori language can be correctly presented. The fonts are TTF. On previous versions of InDesign I have used both fonts - Arial Maori and DOC Maori (based I believe on Garamond) with no problems whatsoever.
I have loaded last year's journal into InDesign CS5 and the DOC Maori font shows up as gobbledygook! The same happens with Arial Maori but only these two fonts. All other fonts on my system show correctly in InDesign. Both fonts work perfectly in PhotoShop CS5 and other programs such as Word 2010. Strange to say the least!
I'd be interested to know if anyone has had a similar problem with fonts in InDesign CS5?

I can only think that Indesign CS5 coding change from CS4 objects to something changed in the TTF Arial Maori and DOC Maori fonts as originally supplied with the macrons added. By passing the fonts through Fontlab and regenerating the fonts back as TFF Fontlab restored the code to a 'vanilla' standard accepted by CS5.
I think that this is pretty close to what is going on. I actually already have an older Arial Mäori in my collection (circa 2003-2004) and the combining macron has a Unicode value of "NULL." That's a bad sign - the history of non-English typesetting is a nightmarish tale full of duct-taped hacks and workarounds, and one of the major dangers of relying on such workarounds is that when one of your tools improves its support for a given standard (say, InDesign's Unicode rendering engine is tweaked in CS5 for a future of hassle-free complex script support) then many of your hacks will break. Then, you'd have to develop new workarounds, which is exactly what you did. But think ahead - it'll change again in CS7 or CS8, and the person in your job at that time will have to figure out a new hack. End the vicious circle - reject poorly made fonts! (That's for joy, not for humor.)
FWIW, plain vanilla Arial has all of the glyphs you'd need to typeset Maori, including the combining macron. There's no call to be relying on a hack font in 2010 for a Latin-script language.

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