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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 21:49:54 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
> Injection-Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 04:49:55 +0000
> 
> On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 4:03:18 AM UTC+5:30, Kaushal Modi wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I was browsing the etc/HELLO, and saw that "Namaste" in Gujarati is shown
> > as 4 separate characters instead of (for a lack of better way to express
> > this) 3.5 characters.
> > 
> > I see: "ન" (1), "મ" (1), "સ્" (1), "તે " (1 - I know that this is
> > technically not 1 char).
> > 
> > It should be seen as: "ન" (1), "મ" (1), "સ્તે " (1.5)
> > 
> > [And the same for Hindi नमस्ते too.]
> 
> [Not sure it constitutes an answer…]
> Had a similar issue with tamil the other day
> Fished around in the (ubuntu) repos for tamil fonts
> After installing something (dont remember what!) and restarting emacs the 
> problem vanished/reduced

Yes, this is likely to be a problem with the required font not being
installed.