Is it possible to add my own character to chat?

[Flenix]

Hey guys,

 

So, I noticed that in the new resource packs there's now an ascii.png for font drawing etc.

This made me wonder; is it possible at all to add my own character? It doesn't neccesarily have to be type-able (After all, it wouldn't be on the keyboard...), but it'd certainly be nice if I can at least print it to chat. If I can somehow let the player type it (maybe ctrl+4 or something when in chat)

 

Not really a massive deal if I can't, just it would be a nice addon for my economy mod if I can make my own currency symbol

[maxpowa]

I don't think that would be possible without changing the way fontrenderer works, though you could use a UTF-8 non-standard currency symbol -- there's a list of them here http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/currency_symbols/images.htm