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Why do some non-ASCII code points don't require special fonts but others do?

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I've never needed to use fonts to display characters belonging to popular Indian languages: Hindi/Bengali/Kannada/etc, but have to for others?

Why is that? How can I determine that these specific characters are not going to be rendered properly on my website but instead look like boxes with unicode hexadecimals?

Example:Basic Latin: AArabic: ثBengali: জTagalog: ᜌCurrency Symbols: ₲Ancient Greek Numbers: 𐅢Tirhuta: 𑒛

I am specifically looking at Tirhuta script. I can see the character when I use a related font.

However, if my app takes a string in other languages from the user, how do I make sure that those characters appear? Main question: why did I never have to deal with specific fonts for popular Indian scripts?


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