Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Emulation of Accents in incomplete Fonts

[Bram]

Some commercial fonts don't have all Unicode characters, but they provide symbols for accents, so that the user can construct their own accented characters. This requires overlaying two characters and fiddling a bit with the elevation of the accents. How can I do that in XeLaTeX?

In the example below with XeLaTeX, a normal "g" is printed and than an breve (a dish-like accent). They need to be combined to form a g-breve.

Any help would be appreciated!

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\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode}
\setmainfont{Scala}
\newfontfamily\accentfont[Scale=0.8]{ScalaExpert}

\begin{document}
g \accentfont\char"0046
\end{document}

[kaiserkarl13]

Does it work to use \'g (as in standard TeX)?