| | Cause | Solution | |-------------|-----------|---------------| | Typed text shows boxes or English letters | Keyboard layout not active | Switch to correct IME | | Text appears in a different Devanagari style | Wrong font selected | Set document font to Shree Dev 0715 | | Conjuncts break when copying to web | Non‑Unicode encoding | Convert using online tools (e.g., Shree‑Dev to Unicode converter) | | Shifted keys produce wrong characters | Wrong keyboard mapping | Reinstall correct IME (Baraha / GIST) |

Installing the font is easy, but enabling the keyboard layout requires a specific trick.

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Historically, Marathi typists used mechanical typewriters (Remington, Godrej). When computers arrived, the font Shree Dev 0715 mapped its characters exactly to the . This is often specifically referred to as the Shree Dev 0715 Keyboard .