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So, okay, if it's not embedding, and Tahoma is not on your list, how is the iBook showing these extended characters. To my knowledge these extended characters show up differently using fonts other than Tahoma. If Tahoma is not on the list, how is it that I can see them? I'd really like to know.
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Some fonts can be applied to text in an ebook in iBooks on the iPad. These are fonts like Cochin or Hoefler Text, or Palatino.
Some fonts are applied automatically by iBooks when you use a particular character. So if you can write a document in, say, Arabic and save it in an XHTML file and compress it in an ePub, iBooks will use the Geeza font to display it. It doesn't matter if you apply Palatino to it, or Bradley Hand, or whatever. Because those characters are from a given range of Unicode, they'll trigger the Geeza font in iBooks. (This system also applies to Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai, as well as Zapf Dingbats, and all of the (X)HTML entities like ñ, ç, and even ♥ (of which you can find a
full table here.)
I imagine that's what's happening with your Sanskrit, though I'm not familiar with those particular characters. I'd be curious to see your ePub doc if you feel like sharing it.
There are a number of font-related posts on my site you might find useful:
Palatino bug in iBooks on iPad
Text Size in ePubs-- Points? Pixels? or Ems? Oh my...
More fonts for eBooks on iBooks on the iPad
Choosing Fonts for iBooks on iPad
hope that's helpful,
Liz