[INDOLOGY] Fwd: [Samskrita] Siddhanta font rendering in Word broken after recent update

[Harry Spier]

Is ths just a Mac problem or is it also on windows?
Harry Spier


On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 4:10 PM Lubin, Tim <LubinT at wlu.edu> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
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> 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.)
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> I have in fact posted to Microsoft discussion board about this, but I have
> received no useful guidance:
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> https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/microsoft-office-for-mac-has-stopped-displaying/ebd3fba8-edac-42e0-954b-cfcdc58679f8
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> I have compiled a list of fonts that DO still work for me in Word (and
> display properly in Outlook):
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> Baloo
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> Devanagari Sangam
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> Gotu
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> ITF Devanagari
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> Kohinoor Devanagari
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> Lava Devanagari
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> Mukta
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> Noto Sans Devanagari
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> October Devanagari
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> Sama Devanagari
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> Shobhika Devanagari
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> Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit (or Hindi)
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> 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.
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> Best,
> Tim
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> 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
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> *From: *INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of
> INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Reply-To: *Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu>
> *Date: *Sunday, September 17, 2023 at 3:27 PM
> *To: *Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Subject: *Re: [INDOLOGY] Fwd: [Samskrita] Siddhanta font rendering in
> Word broken after recent update
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> I have noticed the same problem on my Mac / MSWord.
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> Madhav Deshpande
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> On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 12:12 PM Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> The following was posted to the Samskrta list.
>
> Harry Spier
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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: *Bandaru Viswanath* <vegavahini at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 2:12 PM
> Subject: [Samskrita] Siddhanta font rendering in Word broken after recent
> update
> To: samskrita <samskrita at googlegroups.com>, <
> sanskrit-programmers at googlegroups.com>
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> Namaste,
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> 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.
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> Please see the screenshot below, each of the three bullet points are
> rendered in Siddhanta, Adishila and Adishila Dev Guru fonts respectively.
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> Could anyone help me if there is a configuration that I may be missing? Or
> do you see the same issue ?
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> I use MS Word (Office-365), on a MAC.
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> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Viswanath.
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