Burmese/Myanmar fonts from Word

Hey,
I'm trying to transfer some Word documents that use mostly Wwin_Burmese and WinInnwa fonts to Indesign. They work for the most part when pasted or placed, but a few characters are replaced with the wrong glyph, e.g. the Myanmar T becomes a quotation mark. Any idea why this is happening and how it can be fixed?
Thanks

This is an issue with Microsoft's encoding of Burmese vs. Adobe. They do not use the same encoding schema. See Wikipedia:Font - ဝိကိပိဒိယ This is also an issue with Hebrew in Adobe which frequently renders incorrectly. The issue is a nightmare but i am not technical enough to understand how to fix it.

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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.
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                                        [email protected]
                                               212-962-6460

(1)     Never post a serial number of a product you've licensed on a public forum. We have taken the responsible liberty of replacing that serial number in your post with a series of Xs.
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