Devanagari font not working in Monterey 12.6.8

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Devanagari font not working in Monterey 12.6.8

I use the Devanagari Unicode font Adishila.ttf for my work. Since I upgraded my Mac from Monterey OS 12.6.7 to 12.6.8, this font no longer displays correctly in Microsoft Word. Specifically, the feature in the font that converts successive characters to the correct combination glyphs seems to be disabled. Other Devanagari fonts work fine, and Adishila also works correctly in TextEdit, Adobe InDesign and Photoshop; just not in Word. (I am using Word version 16.76.) I tried deleting the font and reinstalling a newly downloaded version, but that didn't help. I also tried checking out the font in this website https://www.impallari.com/testing/index-devanagari.php and I didn't see any problems. Does anyone have any idea who I can ask for help or how I can identify where the problem might lie?

iMac 27″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Aug 30, 2023 6:04 PM

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Tom Gewecke

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Aug 30, 2023 6:42 PM in response to mschs

PS I am on 12.6.1. I found Adishila "hindi" displayed correctly with an older version of Word (16.54), but after I updated to 16.76 it no longer worked, as below

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Tom Gewecke

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Aug 30, 2023 6:17 PM in response to mschs

For problems confined to Word, a good place to ask is often

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-msoffice_unknown-mso_OPMac?sort=LastReplyDate&dir=Desc&tab=All&status=all&mod=&modAge=&advFil=&postedAfter=&postedBefore=&threadType=all&isFilterExpanded=true&page=1

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Tom Gewecke

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Aug 30, 2023 6:27 PM in response to mschs

mschs wrote:the feature in the font that converts successive characters to the correct combination glyphs seems to be disabled.

Could you provide a specific example or two? does "hinfdI" produce the correct form for "hindi". You have to use images here because the forums don't accept devanagari.

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mschs Author

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Aug 30, 2023 6:42 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

"hinfdI" displays exactly as that string—so "nfd" displays as n + halant + d instead of the n-d conjunct. Same with all other characters—nothing combines. But just in Adishila, and just in Word.

Here is a screenshot from Word:

And here is the same text pasted into TextEdit:

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mschs Author

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Aug 30, 2023 6:46 PM in response to mschs

Hmm... so it's a problem with Word. Interesting. I did upgrade both Word and my OS at the same time. I'll see if I can get an older version of Word working again.

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mschs Author

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Aug 30, 2023 6:52 PM in response to mschs

Thank you Tom!

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