Ask HN: How does "ᜋᜈᜎ|ᜇᜃᜒᜆ᜔‖ᜋᜈᜒᜌ|ᜈᜄ᜔ᜄ‖᜔" (Tagalog) get rendered on OS X/iOS?

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by gfmio • 9 years ago
1 4 9 years ago

The string "ᜋ ᜈ ᜎ| ᜇᜃᜒᜆ᜔‖ ᜋ ᜈᜒᜌ| ᜋᜀᜈᜄ᜔ᜄ‖ ᜇ ᜃᜎᜄ᜔ ᜊᜒᜈᜄᜆ᜔ ᜑ‖" from the Tagalog wikipedia entry renders perfectly fine on OS X and iOS system applications (try copy &pasting it on your device). However, when I tried to get it to render in any browser, it completely failed.

Can anyone figure out what systems font to target in order to render this string correctly?

(Tagalog is a the traditional (non-standardised) script of the Filipino language. I was looking at finding ways to render uncommon scripts in a web browser, but this filipino script seems to resist.)

Any help is appreciated! :)

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