Keyboard Viewer

Perhaps other people have a perspective on this problem: What is the purpose of the Font drop-down list in the Apple Keyboard Viewer?
Suppose in the Apple Input Menu the writing systems in three world scripts of the European Union are shown and suppose the Apple Keyboard Viewer is shown.
Suppose that the Apple Input Menu is set to Bulgarian and suppose the Apple Keyboard Viewer is set to a font file whose CMAP Character Map does not support the Bulgarian character subset.
For instance, if Monotype Baskerville or Apple Hoefler is selected then the analphabetic numbers are shown in antiqua and the alphabetic letters are shown in a sans serif which is presumably either Linotype Helvetica or Bigelow & Holmes Lucida (the Keyboard Viewer is not scalable and the supported scale is too small to tell the difference between designs). What is the supposed aim and is the supposed aim achieved?
/hh

For playing with scripts not yet in Unicode, like Tengwar, I think you have a good case.
Tengwar, like Klingon, leads a life in Anglo-American twentieth century literature. Proposals to assign Elvish Tengwar and Klingon to ISO-IEC 10646 were made in 1997.
Michael Everson proposed Klingon for ISO-IEC 10646 (http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/sc2/WG2/docs/n1643/n1643.htm)
And Michael Everson proposed Tengwar for ISO-IEC 10646 (http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/wg2/docs/n1641/n1641.htm)
The Unicode Mailing List has had Klingon up for a turn, and may have had Tengwar up for a turn, too. Wikipedia has an article on Tengwar, as follows:
"Tengwar is a script that was invented by J.R.R. Tolkien. In his works, the tengwar script, invented by Fëanor, was used to write a number of the languages of Middle-earth, including Quenya and Sindarin. However, it can also be used to write other languages, such as English (most of Tolkien's tengwar samples are actually in English). The word tengwar is Quenya for "letters". The corresponding singular is tengwa, "letter"."
Best wishes,
Henrik Holmegaard

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