Sanskrit: Devanagari UTF-8 browser tests

kerri9494 said I should spam this stuff into my LJ, so here goes.

Edited at 20:33 EDT to add that of course kerri9494 has already tested all the Windows browsers (that run under XP, of course) and has those results sitting on her hard drive.

Any Linux users out there? paulv? If so, when you have a minute, please report your Linux browsers' behaviors, I'm curious.

So anyway, I was previously aware of the lameness of most browsers when it comes to rendering many of the more obscure UTF-8 characters.

One of our projects is all about the Sanskrit, which is written in a character set called Devanagari.

This is represented in Unicode in the U+0900 to U+0970 range (aka the 0xE0A480 to 0xE0A5B0 range in UTF-8 hex).

So I decided to put the "lame browsers" theory to the test.

I tested lots of Mac browsers for problems vis-a-vis Devanagari UTF-8, etc.

I took the word "evaM" (which means 'thus', I think) as the test. It ought to look like this in a browser that understands utf-8:



( Here are the Results of the Tests. )