Can't read (or input) Devanagari (Hindi, Sanskrit etc.) fonts - only 1 char

For a while now I've had this problem, but as I'm studying Hindi I need to solve it now.

In Safari, or Mail or Pages or any Carbon application instead of showing different characters I just see the same one: द I can't even be sure you'll see the same one I just typed, because no matter what I type (or which Hindi web page I open) I only see that same character.

Everything I've read says this is automatic from 10.3 onward - yet I can't get it working in my updated-Leopard. In System Preferences -> International I have Devanagari and Devanagari Qwerty both clicked and can choose those as Input text, but it all comes out as the same character.

Help! 🙂

Mac Pro 2.66, 7GB + 15" MacBook Pro CD2.0, Mac OS X (10.5.5), Also have a 30" Dell and a 24" in long/skinny portrait mode - spectacular!

Posted on Nov 14, 2008 10:13 PM

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Nov 14, 2008 11:46 PM in response to Alex Halsey

My guess is that you have some how either removed or never installed the Devanagari font. When there is properly unicode encoded Devanagari text, but no font to show it it is rendered as क (ka the first consonant in the alphabet) in a little box.

Go to the root level of your computer and look in the Library folder and then the Fonts folder. Do you have DevanagariMT.ttf and DevanagariMTBold.ttf? If they are missing I don't know how to get them back. Otherwise I don't know what to say.

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Can't read (or input) Devanagari (Hindi, Sanskrit etc.) fonts - only 1 char

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