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

[Jan Kučera]

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 <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2023 2:46 AM
To: Lubin, Tim <LubinT at wlu.edu>
Cc: Jan Kučera <jan.kucera at ujca.cz>; Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu>; indology at list.indology.info
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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