How do I create archaic "long s" glyph - looks like "f"

I need to insert an old style "long s" also called "medial s" in a title which looks like a f which was used in the 18th century.  From what I understand, this character often only had a partial cross-bar compared to a normal f.  I don't see any special glyphs in fonts for that.  Do I just use an "f"?  Wikipedia has a unicode for the "long s" (U+017F) and microsoft has an alt code for it (Alt + 0383) -- not sure what to do with these.  The corel glyph display doesn't show the  character encoding and in any case, I don't see any special f's

Any insights would be appreciated.