Fallback fonts on special characters

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What you described is the default behaviour of a browser – it should naturally fall back to basic font for missing characters.

However, sometimes custom fonts use blank characters, in that case you can try using the unicode-range

For example:

@font-face {
    font-family: BBCBengali;
    src: url(fonts/BBCBengali.ttf) format("opentype");
    unicode-range: U+00-FF;
}

Taken from this interesting article: Creating Custom Font Stacks with Unicode-Range

Unfortunatelly there are browser support issues.

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