Subject: Re: bug#19347: 24.4.50; Display of bengali text

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:28:15 +0200

> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:44:24 -0500
> From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
> CC: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> The 6 characters fill 7 columns with the blob that indicates a character
> that can't be displayed.  This causes anomalies in cursor motion
> within the line.
> 
> If the line is almost 80 characters, it overflows
> the line on the terminal, causing vertical positioning anomalies too.
> 
> These consequences typically occur when text sent to the terminal
> occupies more columns than Emacs expects it to occupy.

Right.  Does it help to disable compositions?

  M-x auto-composition-mode RET