Facing font/text scrambling issues in Indesign

I need to copy pages of text from word doc to Indesign file. When text is pasted in Indesign it gets all scrambled up.
I am using a foreign language .ttf font on windows 8. I tried changing the font, but same problem for all those language fonts.
any solution for this?

Thanks All. The problem is sorted. I needed to enable the World Ready Paragraph Composer to set Indic preferences. Now i can very well use the devanagri fonts without distortion. The following link was really useful:
Http://blogs.adobe.com/vikrant/2012/05/indesign-cs6-indic-support-and-preferences/

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Namaste InDesign gurus,
I have a problem at hand. Wondering if anyone has encoutered similar problem before? Any help is greatly appreciated. And if you're in San Francisco bay area - I can buy you a lunch :-)
Short description: Devanagari font in layed out in Indesign (using IndicPlus) does not export correctly to a PDF. All the ligatures are assembled and displayed in the PDF.
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