Hindi character view different on different devices

Question

I am implementing multi-lingual (French, Chinese, Hindi....etc) functionality. As Hindi language does not support back compability (below 4.0 ICS), I forced localization using Typeface(akshar.ttf). While testing my setup out with Hindi, I came across a critical condition see the image below:

In this string I'm using अब स्क्रीन शुरू करें(Now, I start the screen) and उपयोगी लिंक्स (Useful links)

Supported devices: Samsung ACE, Samsung S Plus, Galaxy 551

Non-supported devices: Samsung Galaxy S2, HTC Nexus One, HTC Incredible S

Any idea why this is happening?

Answer 1

The problem is you cant directly put a hindi font inside where as we need to convert it to unicode and put that. We came up with the same issue and we acheived it by using unicodes instead of fonts.