Nepali Font Not Showing? Fix Boxes, Question Marks & Junk Text
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When Nepali text appears as empty boxes, question marks or random English letters, the cause is almost always a font or encoding mismatch — either the required font is missing, or the text is in a legacy ASCII encoding being read as Unicode.
Why does Nepali text show as empty boxes (□□□)?
Empty boxes mean the renderer recognises the Unicode code points but has no glyph for them — usually because no Devanagari font is installed. Install a Unicode Devanagari font like Mangal, Mukta or Noto Sans Devanagari to fix it instantly.
Why does Nepali text appear as English letters?
The file is encoded with a legacy ASCII font like Preeti but is being displayed without that font applied. Either install the Preeti font and apply it, or convert the text to Unicode using TypeNepal's Preeti-to-Unicode converter for universal compatibility.
Why do question marks appear instead of Devanagari?
The application opened the file with the wrong character encoding, replacing unknown bytes with ?. Open the file with UTF-8 encoding in your editor. In Microsoft Word use 'File → Open with Encoding' and select UTF-8.
Why does Nepali text look broken only in emails?
The email was sent with mismatched encoding metadata. Modern Gmail and Outlook handle UTF-8 correctly. If the sender used a legacy mail client, ask them to send as UTF-8 or paste the text into a converter to repair it.