System Information
Operating system: WIN 10
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.90.0 Alpha, branch: master, commit date: 2020-07-08 23:46, hash: 31bc76ea4e4b
Also tested in: 2.83.1

Short description of error
I created a text mesh and edited copy-paste the text from google input tools to mesh and selected the font as Lakireddy.ttf (as shown in the screenshot)
The text is distorted and not as expected.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

1. Open blender and select General Project type
2. Crete a new text mesh
3. Go to edit mode
4. Copy the desired test from google input tool (selected Telugu language in the input)
5. Paste the text in Blender (it may not appear until you select the font)
6. Now chose the font from font explore window ( any external .ttf file lakireddy.ttf in my case)
7. And verify the font
8. Font looks like distorted.