Weird font problem (Crazy Diamond font)

Question

Win XP Pro SP2 with ID 5.0.4 -- I'm using a Crazy Diamond 17th century font (www.crazydiamond.co.uk) to simulate old-style printing. Thus, "Mississippi" becomes "Miffiffippi" (long "s") and so on. If I write "This is the other" in regular or italic font, it looks as expected in Photoshop.
But in InDesign, it reads "Þis is xþe oðer" -- That is, each "th" is replaced by an old-style character. I can turn this option on and off in Photoshop, but not in InDesign. So, I wrote to Crazy Diamond and they sent a replacement regular font which cured the problem--which they already knew about. But the problem still exists in their italic font. I've written to them twice about the italic problem, with no response.
So, it's a pretty obscure problem, but I figured I'd mention it here, just in case anyone else has run into a similar problem, and knows of a work-around. I suppose I can just dump the font and use something else, but aside from this glitch, it really does what I'm looking for.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, John

Answer 1

The fontsmith's info makes it quite clear that th/thorn etc. is a
localization thing. Historical is only long esses:
http://www.crazydiamond.co.uk/ot-features.html
This seems to work for me inasmuch as it certainly toggles the
otfLocale feature on and off for selected text (the equivalent of
checking/unchecking it in the OTF flyout if it were there, which it
isn't), but I don't seem to have any font with that feature to test
it on:
//ToggleLocale.jsx
//An InDesign CS3 JavaScript
//Nicked and adapted from another script supplied with ID CS3
//Switches between Localized and Non-localized OTF features
if (app.documents.length != 0){
//If the selection contains more than one item, the selection
//is not text selected with the Type tool.
if (app.selection.length == 1){
//Evaluate the selection based on its type.
switch (app.selection[0].constructor.name){
case "InsertionPoint":
case "Character":
case "Word":
case "TextStyleRange":
case "Line":
case "Paragraph":
case "TextColumn":
case "Text":
case "Story":
//The object is a text object; pass it on to a function.
myProcessText(app.selection[0]);
break;
//In addition to checking for the above text objects, we can
//also continue if the selection is a text frame selected with
//the Selection tool or the Direct Selection tool.
case "TextFrame":
//If the selection is a text frame, get a reference to the
//text in the text frame.
myProcessText(app.selection[0].texts.item(0));
break;
default:
alert("The selected object is not a text object. Select some
text and try again.");
break;
else{
alert("Please select some text and try again.");
function myProcessText(myTextObject){
if (myTextObject.otfLocale == true)
myTextObject.otfLocale = false;
else
myTextObject.otfLocale = true;
Noel