Re: How to get the concated characters in Indic languages like Gujarati/Hindi?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:20:56 -0400
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> It does not seem to be a font issue. The default font picked up by Emacs is 
> Lohit Gujarati. See this image[0].
> The same "નમસ્તે" string is rendering incorrectly in the Emacs buffer, while 
> shows up as expected in
> LibreOffice 5.2.5.1 when using the same font.

FWIW, it's rendered correctly here (with a different font), so it is
not entirely an Emacs issue, either.

> How do I specify the font to be used for specific glyphs (like only the the 
> Gujarati glyph Unicodes)?

With set-fontset-font.

> I can try
> different fonts. But I expect the result to be the same in Emacs. That sample 
> Gujarati string renders fine in
> LibreOffice for few Gujarati fonts I had at hand.

Then perhaps try upgrading your m17n-db, libm17n-flt and libotf
libraries, they are the text-shaping engine Emacs uses on GNU/Linux.