Thank you,

I have now received a few files from Tim. I am trying to establish whether it’s 
Apple or Microsoft at fault here.

Historically there are two Indic layout systems that OpenType supports, with 
the second version, which everyone should be using now, introduced 15 years ago 
in 2008. Fonts can contain data for both at the same time. The fonts I received 
confirmed my suspicion that it’s the fonts that only support the first version 
and not the second that stopped working (i.e. they contain deva script tag but 
not dev2). That feels like a deliberate decision to drop support for the old 
Indic shaping and if I had to guess I would start with macOS here.
Let me see if I can find out more.

Thanks,
Jan

From: Harry Spier <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2023 2:46 AM
To: Lubin, Tim <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kučera <[email protected]>; Madhav Deshpande <[email protected]>; 
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Fwd: [Samskrita] Siddhanta font rendering in Word 
broken after recent update

Tim Lubin wrote:

This thread on the list began by noting that Siddhanta and Adishila fonts also 
malfunction in Word on Mac.
Bandaru Vishwanath wrote that Adishila works fine but Adishila Dev Guru does 
not.
Harry

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