Devanagari font in macOS Terminal not rendering properly

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See below images. What could be the issue and how to fix this?

I tried a few other profiles (in preferences) and also various font settings (under profile), but I am unable to get anything that works. — indojin, Commented Jan 6, 2021 at 7:01

Tom Gewecke · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-08 18:34:47Z

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I think that Apple's Terminal has never supported correct Devanagari display, but have read that Gnome Terminal does. You could try that.

For vim also try searching/asking in its stackexchange site.

If you find something that works, by all means come back here and let us know.

answered Jan 7, 2021 at 0:13

Tom Gewecke

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I see. I’ll try this out. I basically want to run vim inside terminal to type Devanagari. Hope I’ll be able to do that using your solution.
– indojin
Commented Jan 8, 2021 at 3:36
by the way, is this an issue with the terminal or with zsh shell? I also tried using another terminal "Alacritty" but the result is the same. Do you know any other terminals which support Devanagari, apart from gnome? (For gnome terminal, I need macports and also entire xcode which takes up too much space for my need.)
– indojin
Commented Feb 16, 2021 at 4:20
No idea about shells. Try some different ones yourself to test that. My research only came up with gnome as a possibility. Get a cheap external ssd if you need more space.
– Tom Gewecke
Commented Feb 17, 2021 at 1:52

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