Hindi unicode text incorrect on Android 4.1

Asked Nov 30 '17 at 11:48

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I have a piece of Hindi text:

हाइड्रोजन परआॅक्साइड 3%

(Image of the text in case the quote is rendered incorrectly)

On Android API 16 a character is wrong and a dotted circle is shown instead. This is regardless of the font used. On Android API 26 the text is rendered correctly. This makes me wonder if there's something wrong with the original text or if Android's Unicode handling is at fault.

I don't speak Hindi myself so this is hard for me to reason about.

edited Nov 30 '17 at 12:01

asked Nov 30 '17 at 11:48

LucasJ

Well i do not know hindi too but i would not say 'an error occurs' but 'all is displayed well except for one character'. Or am i wrong? – greenapps Nov 30 '17 at 11:59
@greenapps, Right, that's a more precise description of the issue. I've changed the question. – LucasJ Nov 30 '17 at 12:02
And after that i would have made clear which character exactly. – greenapps Nov 30 '17 at 12:04
which font are you using? We have an app which supports Hindi locale. We use [Noto Sans Devanagari](https://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-deva). Can you try this font and check if it solves the problem – Rinav Nov 30 '17 at 12:09
https://stackoverflow.com/q/16108088/4407266 – Aditya Vyas-Lakhan Nov 30 '17 at 12:13
https://stackoverflow.com/q/25456932/4407266 – Aditya Vyas-Lakhan Nov 30 '17 at 12:13

Hindi unicode text incorrect on Android 4.1

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