diff --git a/emacs-23.1-indian.patch b/emacs-23.1-indian.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..503f2cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/emacs-23.1-indian.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+diff -up emacs-23.1/lisp/language/indian.el.indian emacs-23.1/lisp/language/indian.el
+--- emacs-23.1/lisp/language/indian.el.indian	2009-12-03 13:03:04.000000000 +0100
++++ emacs-23.1/lisp/language/indian.el	2009-12-03 13:05:53.000000000 +0100
+@@ -165,15 +165,15 @@ South Indian language Malayalam is suppo
+   "Regexp matching a composable sequence of Malayalam characters.")
+ 
+ (let ((script-regexp-alist
+-       `((devanagari . ,devanagari-composable-pattern)
++       `((devanagari . "[\x900-\x97F\x200C\x200D]+")
+ 	 (bengali . "[\x980-\x9FF\x200C\x200D]+")
+ 	 (gurmukhi . "[\xA00-\xA7F\x200C\x200D]+")
+ 	 (gujarati . "[\xA80-\xAFF\x200C\x200D]+")
+ 	 (oriya . "[\xB00-\xB7F\x200C\x200D]+")
+-	 (tamil . ,tamil-composable-pattern)
++	 (tamil . "[\xB80-\xBFF\x200C\x200D]+")
+ 	 (telugu . "[\xC00-\xC7F\x200C\x200D]+")
+-	 (kannada . ,kannada-composable-pattern)
+-	 (malayalam . ,malayalam-composable-pattern))))
++	 (kannada . "[\xC80-\xCFF\x200C\x200D]+")
++	 (malayalam . "[\xD00-\xD7F\x200C\x200D]+"))))
+   (map-char-table
+    #'(lambda (key val)
+        (let ((slot (assq val script-regexp-alist)))
diff --git a/emacs.spec b/emacs.spec
index 728b3a2..de8b1f0 100644
--- a/emacs.spec
+++ b/emacs.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Summary: GNU Emacs text editor
 Name: emacs
 Epoch: 1
 Version: 23.1
-Release: 15%{?dist}
+Release: 16%{?dist}
 License: GPLv3+
 URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
 Group: Applications/Editors
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Patch4: emacs-gtk.patch
 Patch5: emacs-23.1-xdg.patch
 Patch6: emacs-23.1-cpp.patch
 Patch7: emacs-23.1-scroll.patch
+Patch8: emacs-23.1-indian.patch
 
 Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
 BuildRequires: atk-devel, cairo-devel, desktop-file-utils, freetype-devel, fontconfig-devel, dbus-devel, giflib-devel, glibc-devel, gtk2-devel, libpng-devel
@@ -56,6 +57,7 @@ Provides: emacs(bin)
 # #516391
 Obsoletes: emacs-nxml-mode < 0.20041004-10
 Provides: emacs-nxml-mode = 0.20041004-10
+Requires: m17n-db-datafiles
 
 # C and build patches
 
@@ -126,6 +128,7 @@ Emacs packages or see some elisp examples.
 %patch5 -p1 -b .xdg
 %patch6 -p1
 %patch7 -p1 -b .scroll
+%patch8 -p1
 
 # install rest of site-lisp files
 ( cd site-lisp
@@ -397,6 +400,9 @@ alternatives --install %{_bindir}/etags emacs.etags %{_bindir}/etags.emacs 80 \
 %dir %{_datadir}/emacs/%{version}
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Dec 03 2009 Daniel Novotny <dnovotny@redhat.com> 1:23.1-16
+- fix #542657 -  emacs does not display indic text
+
 * Wed Dec 02 2009 Daniel Novotny <dnovotny@redhat.com> 1:23.1-15
 - fix #543046 -  Using scroll bar in emacs highlights/selects text