Trouble copy pasting Sanskrit from Word

Question

I am having trouble copy-pasting some Sanskrit text from a word document to my indesign file. Here's a screenshot from the word file. It is in the Nirmal UI typeface—

Here's what I get in indesign when I copy and paste it—

As you can see, indesign shifts some of the glyphs, especially the "ि" and " ी" by a few spaces. I have tried different typefaces for the word document as well as for the indesign document, but none of them work. I also tried placing the word file as well as a pdf version of the word document inside the indesign document, but it did not solve the issue. A solution which was suggested was to make sure I had the World Ready composer selected under preferences, but that did not help either.

Marvest · Accepted Answer

I tried Adobe Devnagari, Mangal, and Nirmal ui. They work beautifully in word, but have the same problems in Indesign.

Here's the text:

निःपक्षपातितां सूचयितुं नित्यं शुभ्रध्वजः प्रचालनीयः।

पूर्वगृहं विंता कस्यापि नैकायाः तथैव नौकाकर्मचारिणां साहाय्यं कर्तव्यम् कदापि यदि नौका आपद्ग्रस्ता भवति तर्हि कर्मचारिभिः धैर्येण स्वसंरक्षणं करणीयम् ।

Surprisingly chrome and google docs have no trouble with it.

This is what I get when I apply a paragraph style with Adobe Devanagari, Hindi language, Adobe World Ready Paragraph Composer:

Please make sure you have a specific paragraph style with the above attributes to apply to your text. These are screenshots of the paragraph style I used:

Marvest · Answer

Have you tried changing the language? Maybe Hindi because Indesign doesn't have Sanskrit.

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