This is structurally correct (a Hindi reader could comprehend it in a pinch), but highly illegible. Unfortunately, when I try to render the above Unicode character sequence in Unity, instead of getting two glyphs, I get three: one for "ya", one for "j" (i.e. This isn't an isolated case there are many such glyphs, and similar techniques are used to handle essential language features like vowel modifiers. So the correct display of this word would have one glyph for "ya" and one glyph for "jña". Using a decent Devanagari-enabled font (anything from Arial Unicode MS, to third-party ones like Siddhanta ( ) ), this renders correctly, because the last three characters (ja, virama, ña) actually resolve to a single glyph, which is a special character used for the character transliterated as "jña". In the case of Devanagari fonts, these glyphs are critical the characters in the PDF above are sufficient to define all of the characters needed for the language, but insufficient to render them in a legible manner.įor example, the simple word "yajña" (in transliterated text) is represented in Devanagari as \u092F (ya), \u091c (ja), \u094d (virama), \u091e (ña). The issue is with the extended glyphs that these fonts provide to support combinations of characters these glyphs are beyond the range provided in the PDF linked above, and are used as part of the character->glyph mapping in the font.
However, neither the stock Unity GUI font renderer, nor any of the several font-rendering-related assets that I've downloaded, has managed to render it correctly. I have several TTF fonts that have very good support for Devanagari, and which render well in web browsers, Notepad etc.
I am very interested in rendering Unicode text involving Devanagari characters (used for languages like Hindi, Sanskrit, etc.).
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