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Lenovo A6000 / Plus with Lollipop 5.1.1 with Hindi Font issue solved

I recently updated my Lenovo A6000 (which is showing signs of wear) to Lollipop 5.1.1 using this tutorial on XDA Developers. (The forum post tells me that the author of this rather marvelous mod is A-MOD ). After updating, I found that I could no longer read WhatsApp forwards which were not in English. All Hindi and Marathi characters where replaced by blocks or what some people call "Tofu"(and hence the No To fu font - the Noto fonts by Google). So I did what I do best and found articles dating back to 2010 and 2012 talking about DroidSanFallback.ttf font, the /system/fonts folder, the /system/etc folder, the fonts.xml file and the fallback_fonts.xml file. After several permutations and combinations which luckily did not brick my phone. I got the following solution. To begin with, you will need a freshly tortured A6000/Plus with the 5.1.1 unofficial ROM installed. After that, I would recommend enabling Root Access from Developer Options for Apps, installing the ES File B