I can have a look and/or escalate, can anyone send me or point to a pair of 
fonts that does and doesn’t work, such as the Adishila and Adishila Dev Guru, 
and possibly the version of Word where it no longer works?

Thanks,
Jan
ल Institute of South and Central Asia Students, Prague

From: INDOLOGY <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Lubin, Tim
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2023 9:09 PM
To: Madhav Deshpande <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Fwd: [Samskrita] Siddhanta font rendering in Word 
broken after recent update

Dear colleagues,

I, too, and no doubt many others are having this or similar problems with 
various Unicode-compliant ttf/ttc and otf Devanāgarī fonts when used in 
Microsoft Office software.  This is a headache because I have numerous 
documents using Arial Unicode for the Devanāgarī, and now when I open them in 
Word, or paste text from them into Outlook, all the conjunct glyphs are 
decomposed with virama.  (Those fonts still work fine in other softwore, e.g., 
TextEdit, LibreOffice, etc.)

I have in fact posted to Microsoft discussion board about this, but I have 
received no useful guidance:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/microsoft-office-for-mac-has-stopped-displaying/ebd3fba8-edac-42e0-954b-cfcdc58679f8

I have compiled a list of fonts that DO still work for me in Word (and display 
properly in Outlook):

Baloo
Devanagari Sangam
Gotu
ITF Devanagari
Kohinoor Devanagari
Lava Devanagari
Mukta
Noto Sans Devanagari
October Devanagari
Sama Devanagari
Shobhika Devanagari
Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit (or Hindi)

The list of fonts that no longer work for me include such common ones as Arial 
Unicode MS and Sanskrit 2003/2020, along with several others.

Best,
Tim

Timothy Lubin
Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion, and Adjunct Professor of Law
Head of the Law, Justice, and Society Program
204 Tucker Hall
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Virginia 24450
https://lubin.academic.wlu.edu/
http://wlu.academia.edu/TimothyLubin
https://ssrn.com/author=930949
https://dharma.hypotheses.org/people/lubin-timothy



From: INDOLOGY 
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 on behalf of INDOLOGY 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply-To: Madhav Deshpande <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Sunday, September 17, 2023 at 3:27 PM
To: Harry Spier <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: INDOLOGY <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Fwd: [Samskrita] Siddhanta font rendering in Word 
broken after recent update

I have noticed the same problem on my Mac / MSWord.

Madhav Deshpande

On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 12:12 PM Harry Spier via INDOLOGY 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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Harry Spier

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Bandaru Viswanath <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 2:12 PM
Subject: [Samskrita] Siddhanta font rendering in Word broken after recent update
To: samskrita <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>

Namaste,

I use siddhanta font heavily in my work. I found that after a recent MS-Word 
update, the Siddhanta font rendering is broken. More specifically, the 
द्वित्वाक्षाणि are being displayed in their ह्रस्व forms. The Adishila base 
font seems fine. But Adishila Dev Guru font also has the same issue.

Please see the screenshot below, each of the three bullet points are rendered 
in Siddhanta, Adishila and Adishila Dev Guru fonts respectively.

[cid:[email protected]]

Could anyone help me if there is a configuration that I may be missing? Or do 
you see the same issue ?

I use MS Word (Office-365), on a MAC.

Thanks and Regards,
Viswanath.

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