For example, for Classical Sanskrit, only 11 additional ligatures would be required to make the Adobe Devanagari font suitable for Classical Sanskrit (as opposed to Vedic Sanskrit). That's okay, but a circumspect designer, adding only a few additional ligatures could make the font also suitable for Marathi and Sanskrit. The Adobe Devanagari font does not work with older Windows and older Word.įor example, Adobe Devanagari does not work with old Microsoft Word, version 10, in conjunction with Windows XP.įor comparison, Mangal and all the other Devanagari Unicode fonts known to me work with older Word and older Windows, provided the Uniscribe system library for foreign language support was installed with Windows.Ī) > Adobe Devanagari was designed specifically for modern Hindi use, and not for Sanskrit Many frequently used ligatures are missing, even ligatures which have a frequency of much more than 0.01 %, e.g. The diacritic for 'sh' (both lowercase and uppercase), very frequently used in Indic words, e.g.
The Latin diacritics required for transliterating Indic (Hindi, Sanskrit, etc.) texts is incomplete. I had a closer technical look at AdobeDevanagari-Regular.otf, version 1.105 (2011), and here are my findings:ġ. It seems that the Adobe Devanagari font was not yet discussed at Typophile. This topic was imported from the Typophile platform
