The first font I could find (using charmap.exe) that had Devanagari characters was Nirmala UI.
This thread from about a year ago talks more about how Windows handles fallback fonts.įrom c:\windows\fonts\GlobalUserInterface.CompositeFont, I see: Īnd GlobalMonospace.CompositeFont shows: īased on my interpretations from a year ago, that would say that Windows would look for a font called “Mangal”… but I don’t have that font.
It renders correctly in Notepad++, even though DejaVu Sans Mono has none of the Devanagari. Copied the table from the Wikipedia:Devanagari page into Notepad++, where I’m using DejaVu Sans Mono as my default font U+090x ऀ ँ ं ः ऄ अ आ इ ई उ ऊ ऋ ऌ ऍ ऎ ए
