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The browser doesn't render any Devnagari content at all.  eg. http://www.esakal.com/
 The iPhone gets partially there, but is incorrect.  Nokia E71 renders it perfectly.

I agree with milindr. I see Square boxes like ☐ instead of characters अ आ इ ई उ ऊ on
Unicode or UTF8 compliant Hindi websites. Even Google Hindi website doesnt open
properly through my HTC Hero's Android 1.5 stock browser. Please support Devnagri
lipi (Sanskrit/Hindi) fonts in Android OS. I want to change my default font to see
Devnagri numerals: ०,१,२,३,४,५,६,७,८,९ instead of Roman numerals:
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. I want my clock to use Devnagri numerals instead of Roman
numerals. Thanks!

Please do more than consider it. The omission is a definite shortcoming in GCF. Yes, there is a workaround described at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42901076/how-to-use-private-npm-packages-with-cloud-functions/43064922#43064922 and I am using it, but whenever there's a new version of a private module, I have to go and update each of my Cloud Functions to use it rather than the old one. That's not how known dependencies should work.

Perfect.
So, this should get fixed and also the default browser should support hindi and other
UTF8 fonts.

Yes we need full Hindi (Devanagari) unicode support in Android. There should also be
provision for Hindi virtual keyboard in Android for inputting Hindi text. It can be
provided as a separate download.

There is such a tool named "Eyron's Hindi Support" for Windows Mobile. Similar tool
should be provided for Android.

I'm developing a Hindi(Devanagari) Virtual Keyboard for Android. As it has been clear
from other open issues on this problem as in Issue 36912303 where the google
representative pointed out in Comment 15 that:

4. as alok.kumar says in comment #14, just having the font glyphs doesn't necessarily
mean you can put them on the screen correctly. there's font renderer work to be done.

I'm having somewhat the same problem. Whenever I try to use the unicode which
combines with the previous one to form a new glyph for example '094D' known as
halant, it doesn't work. Whenever I input 094D, it clears all the previous characters
in the textbox. This also happens with all the other Matra unicodes in Devanagari.

I'm also aware that Android as of now, do not has devanagari font support. I created
my own application and attached Devanagri font to it using:

Typeface face=Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/Mangal.ttf");


Can you please let me know why all the previous characters in the textbox clears as
soon as I input any Matra unicode?

@druvbhasin
i m using the same method to type devnagri letters & facing no problem while typing Matra's like  ु ू े  ै ा ौ ो  etc but Halant is not working to form ligatures  for eg "स्वस्त"  displayed as " स् वस् त"

@druvbhasin @riyajsheikh

Did you just replace original Droid-Sanserif.ttf with Mangal.ttf (of course renamed latter to Droid-Sanserif.ttf)?

I tried it on my rooted Sprint HTC Hero but it then screws English sentences.

Any idea?

@prateeka...@gmail.com

what i am(& i guess even druvbhasin is also) trying to do here is to develop an application which will have a feature of DEVNAGRI typing.It will be able to type in indian languages.
I am not trying to change default font files but rather using a dedicated font file for this application. having this file will not affect (in a +ve or -ve way) any other application present on the phone.

Why Android People not yet do this................... Just as orkut n facebook in India, this thing will repeat also. What is happening to Google????????????

Google is sleeping. Google wake up!

iPhone also has this support. Symbian had this for ages.

Having Indic script (Indian Language) support is must if Google considers world as their market.

google's android is 'quietly hopeless' fellow, I don't expect it from google, rather I accept it from developers @ xda-developers!!

@ prateeka
Change DroidSansFallback.ttf instead of changing DroidSans.ttf this worked for me I can see English and Devanagari but again Devanagari is messed up because there is no proper rendering. Once you change fallback it will show Chinese characters as boxes, I didnt care for it anyways :)

I wonder why this is a big deal for andriod to render these fonts when Nokia (Symbian) has this in its very basic phones, really doubt it requires that much space. If someone has any background in rendering maybe we can put this in custom rom.

I am really surprised that even now (so many months of requests have passed) we still do not have support for Devnagri fonts for Android? I use Samsung Galaxy S.