Burmese/Myanmar font problem in InDesign

CS6, World-Ready Paragraph Composer, Mac OS X v10.8
Does anyone know a Unicode 5.1/6.x font for the Myanmar plane which works in InDesign?
Tried Yangon, Myanmar3 (mm3), Padauk, Parabaik and Apple’s built-in Myanmar (Sangam) MN.
Copy-and-paste from Apple TextEdit works for half of my text with the font Yangon. On the other half, some combined characters are either not combined and/or in the wrong order. For one combined character, I tried all permutations with the Apple’s standard Apple Myanmar keyboard; did not work either. Some fonts are worse, some fonts are better. For example with Myanmar3 only very few characters are combined correctly. In Apple TextEdit and Microsoft Word 2011, Myanmar3 is perfect. In InDesign, တန်း is rendered correctly only by Yangon. Therefore, I assume a font issue.

Can you post a sample?
တန်း
Even if you do not see the line above, you should be able to copy-and-paste it to a Burmese savvy app, are you? Otherwise, I upload a picture.
Did you key the text yourself?
Not everything. I concentrated on the combined characters above, typed them myself, and even looked up (double-checked) the Unicode byte-code/order in a hex editor. Because there is only one order allowed in Apple TextEdit—which matches my understanding of the Unicode standard—I doubt I have a byte issue. Anyway, difficult to judge. As character encoding, do you know if you use Zwagyi-One, Unicode 5.1, or WinInnwa? Perhaps I advanced to much, going for Unicode 5.1 compatible font.
"a font issue"
As stated, was just a guess. I am not about a bug in InDesign. Actually, looks like InDesign is OK because one font works partly. Did I get you correctly, your current best guess: It is an issue of those fonts? That would strengthen my guess, then I would go that path and look more into fonts …

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