I am working with some Devanagari text data I want to display in the browser. Unfortunately, there's one combination of nonspacing combining characters that doesn't get rendered as a proberly combined character.
The problem occurs every time a base character is combined with the Devanagari Stress Sign Udatta ॑ (U+0951) and the Devanagari Sign Visarga ः (U+0903).
An example for this would be र॑ः, which is र (U+0930) + ॑ + ः and should be rendered as one character. But the stress sign and the other one don't seem to like each other (as you can see above!).
It's no problem to combine the base char with each of the other two signs alone, btw: र॑ / रः
I already tried to use several fonts which should be able to render Devanagari characters (some Noto fonts, Siddhanta, GentiumPlus) and tested it with different browsers, but the problem seems to be something else.
Does anyone have an idea? Is this not a valid combination of symbols?
EDIT: I just tried to switch around the two marks just to see what if - it renders as रः॑, so U+0951 and U+0903 don't seem to have the same function, as the stress sign gets rendered on top of the other mark.
It looks like i don't understand Unicode enough, yet.
This is NOT a solution for your problem, but might be useful information:
Like you, I couldn't get this to work in any browser despite trying several fonts, including Arial Unicode MS:
The browser was simply rendering the text
Devanagari Test: रः॑from within the<body>of a JSP. The stress sign is clearly appearing above the Sign Visarga instead of the base character.It is a valid combination. I don't know Devanagari, so I don't know whether it is semantically "valid", but it is trivial to generate exactly the character you want from a Java application:
System.out.println("Devanagari test: \u0930\u0903\u0951");This is the output from executing the
println()call, showing the stress sign above the base character:The screenshot above is from NetBeans 8.2 on Windows 10, but the rendering also worked fine using the latest releases of Eclipse and Intellij IDEA. The constraints are:
println()for the rendering to work.Unfortunately not, although it is clear that:
See Why are some combining diacritics shifted to the right in some programs? for more information on this.