Emacs is unable to properly render a Malayalam font when a Virama is applied to a consonant with a diacritic. Instead of appearing with the consonant, it is displayed separately. Steps to Reproduce: 1. emacs -Q 2. In the scratch buffer type any malayalam consonant with a diacritic and a virama. e.g. : കാ്, കെ്, കൈ് 3. Instead of appearing on the consonant, the Virama appears separately with a dotted circle I am using the "Baloo Chettan 2" font, but the issue is appearing with other fonts also. I have attached the correct render from "hb-view" in the file "mal.png", and the incorrect render from emacs in the file "mal-emacs.png" In GNU Emacs 28.0.91 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.31, cairo version 1.17.4) of 2022-01-20 built on baf2fb08a9c3 Repository revision: 4445f200b7c0bf11e412ca300de00e2988922ba0 Repository branch: pgtk-nativecomp Windowing system distributor 'System Description: Arch Linux Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-gameuser=:games --with-sound=alsa --with-modules --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-cairo --with-xwidgets --with-native-compilation --with-pgtk --without-compress-install --without-gconf --without-gsettings --without-m17n-flt --enable-autodepend --enable-link-time-optimization 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -g -flto' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now' Configured features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PGTK PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS XIM XWIDGETS GTK3 ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: hi_IN.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: text-scale-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t indent-tabs-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs auth-source eieio eieio-core eieio-loaddefs password-cache json map text-property-search mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail comp comp-cstr warnings rx cl-seq cl-macs cl-extra seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date subr-x pp wid-edit descr-text help-mode cl-loaddefs cl-lib face-remap iso-transl tooltip eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/pgtk-win pgtk-win term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice button loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads xwidget-internal dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit pgtk lcms2 multi-tty make-network-process native-compile emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 94063 23351) (symbols 48 20847 1) (strings 32 81418 4452) (string-bytes 1 1988002) (vectors 16 24062) (vector-slots 8 1453075 134979) (floats 8 38 87) (intervals 56 372 0) (buffers 992 13))