Nepali characters in CS2 InDesign

Question

I have to copy Nepali characters (Mangal font) from a Word document to CS2 InDesign. My problem is that when I past them in InDesign, some characters change. Where could this change come from? (The autocorrect is not enabled)

Answer 1

My problem is that when I past them in InDesign, some characters change. Where could this change come from? (The autocorrect is not enabled)
If you are interested (beyond simply "I need it to work") - complex scripts like this one require a lot of conditional glyph changes. So a vowel that prints by itself will leap up above a particular consonant when it appears next to it, for example. Much like cursive in English, but far more complicated. This is true of a wide variety of languages - many scripts from southeast and central Asia, all Arabic-related scripts, Tibetan, and so on.
MS Word uses Windows native Unicode rendering to display such complex-script characters. Adobe using a completely separate type-rendering engine, no matter the language. It's one of the reasons to pick InDesign in the first place, actually. But the normal paragraph composer doesn't render complex scripts accurately.
If you are stuck on CS2, then you could just export PDF from Word and place those PDFs in InDesign. It's not pretty, and it's not easy to use, but it works. I used to have a nasty kludge-y workaround when I had to avoid placed files that relied on saving EPS out of Acrobat in a very particular way that resulted in outlined fonts in Illustrator, that I could then copy and paste into InDesign. But really, if you need to handle Nepali more than once, then any upgrade to a contemporary version of ID that has the World-Ready Composer is completely worth it.