Hindi Text not copied from Office to Inkscape correctly

Steps to reproduce:

  • open Inkscape
  • copy the following text
वदार का नाम
कका रपये
नगद/चैक वदनाँक
हसताकर
  • paste into Inkscape
  • paste into wordpad or microsoft word
  • Change font to Mangal if available (displays the text correctly)
  • Copy the text from wordpad or microsoft word
  • Paste it into Inkscape
  • Paste it into notepad then copy that and paste that into Inkscape

What happened?

  • Hindi text is not copied over properly when taken from Word or wordpad (possibly eps format? rtf?).

  • Note that pasting the plaintext (e.g. from Notepad or from above) doesn't keep the Mangal font

  • Pasting from Word or Wordpad does remember the Mangal font

What should have happened?

Text pasted correctly

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Inkscape Version and Operating System:

  • Inkscape Version: ... Inkscape 0.92.4 (5da689c313, 2019-01-14)
  • Operating System: ... Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
  • Operating System version: ... 10.0.18362 N/A Build 18362
Edited by Nathan Lee