Wow !! I don't have a clue I'm afraid. All I did was to hit the reply button on my Netscape 3 browser where I had Devarakonda's stuff in Devanagari because, I assumed, I have the right fonts installed. Why this would not show up on your screen in the original message but in  the reply beats me.
Charles

Claude Setzer wrote:

 Can you please tell us what you did to the message???  The original did not show up on my computer as Devanagari, but your response copy shows up fine!! Claude Setzer
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Poncet <carlo@PRAETOR.CH>
To: INDOLOGY@LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK <INDOLOGY@LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK>
Date: Sunday, November 01, 1998 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: Testing devanagari script in e-mailWorks absolutely fine for me perhaps because I have both sans12.ttf font and Xdvng installed.
I wish TYPING in Devanagari was that simple because all available software seems to be unable to recognise that some people do not type on American or English language keyboards. I use a French keyboard and sure enough I have to guess where to find the anuswara and the like because all indications in the manual are wrong !! This is very frustrating indeed.
If anybody has a bright idea how to solve that problem I will be very grateful
Charles Poncet

DEVARAKONDA VENKATA NARAYANA SARMA wrote:

This is a test message. All the people who have sans12.ttf font
installed should be able to see the sloka below in devanagari script.

Ay< inj> praeveit g[na l"ucetsam!,
%darcirtana< tu vsuxEkk&hellip;quMbkm!.
This one if you have xdvng.ttf installed

Ay:ù en:j:H p:r:ðv:ðet: g:N:n:a l:G:Øc:ðt:s:am:Î.
udarc:ert:an:aù t:Ø vas:ØD:òkkÙXÙmb:km:Î/