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Once you get used to it, it is quite nice, I think. Zazai would not have been my preferred font to use in the book, since there are a couple of characters whose form is rather unlike the written script and so may not be immediately obvious to a reader who hasn’t encountered this font before. Interestingly, even in Microsoft Word’s navigation bar it shows Arabic characters even though they display correctly in the text of the manuscript itself. If I copy and paste the same word for life here typed with the Zazai font, unless you have that font installed you’ll see Arabic characters. As a result, if you do not have the font installed, you’ll see Arabic characters instead of Mandaic ones or rectangles. Instead it substitutes Mandaic characters in place of Arabic ones. That font works differently than the Unicode Noto Sans Mandaic.

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There is a free font that used to be available online called Zazai, and it requires that I switch to Arabic keyboard for it to work. But the places above where I said there were rectangles I can now see Mandaic. The text now displays correctly in Chrome! Alas, when I copy and paste it into Word, it still shows letters separated by a space that should be connected.

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I found a page explaining how to change fonts in Chrome, and changed the default font to Noto Sans Mandaic. As I was writing this, I wondered if there was some way to change fonts in Chrome that might make a difference. Separate correct characters would be better than identical rectangles, even if it is less than perfect. So too if I copy the rectangles from somewhere online where Mandaic appears, such as Wikipedia, on that site I see rectangles but I can copy and paste them into Word, selecting “Merge Formatting,” the text displays correctly in Word (but still with space between letters that should be joined). Yet when I copy and paste it, I saw rectangles again. There is an online virtual keyboard for typing Mandaic, and if I use it on that site the text displays there correctly. In Word, if I paste in these rectangles and then select them and manually change the font to Mandaic Noto Sans, then the characters display correctly. Do you? As I worked on this post I found something out that has resolved this issue (on which I will say more momentarily). Below is the Mandaic word for “life” copied from elsewhere.

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If I try to copy and paste text in Mandaic Noto Sans it still does not appear on my PC as it should. I now have a text file on my work and home PC Desktops that will stay there for the foreseeable future. Windows calls on the Desktop before Chrome loads, and so if you put a file on the Desktop that has some of these extended characters in its file name, that somehow prevents whatever Chrome does from interfering with the function of these fonts and preventing the characters from displaying. Even then, however, the fix did get the individual characters to display correctly in Word. At least one of them, Mandaic Noto Sans, did not connect the letters via ligatures the way it should. The solution did not make all the fonts in question work perfectly.

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I was able to find out from discussion online that this issue is caused by a Microsoft update to Chrome, but did not find a solution for a long time – until I happened across a fix, which I want to share since I know I am connected with many of the people who are likely to want to type things in Mandaic, Syriac, archaic or Qumran-style Hebrew, and a variety of other ancient language scripts.

Usually what displays are rectangles, all identical. Yet when I went to reply on my PC I did not see Mandaic characters.

I realized that this was not an issue for everyone when someone Tweeted at me in Mandaic, and when I looked at the tweet on my phone it displayed correctly. Mandaic characters have been added to Unicode and there are free fonts available, but at some point they stopped working. I struggled for a long time with Mandaic fonts not working on my PC.

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