In Gujrati, to get for example the letter શ્રી, you add શ્ + ર to get શ્ર and then add ી to finnaly get શ્રી. This is why, in firefox and SVG, it shows up as શ્ રી. In Telegu, I guess the same is happening...
Edit: Tried it on Vista with Firefox - and as expected, the problem is no more!