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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 05:42:03 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:40:17 -0500
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> >> Maybe fbterm handles those characters better?
> > What is fbterm, and how does it relate?
> 
> It's kind of like xterm but instead of running under X11 it uses
> directly the framebuffer device.  So it is similar to Linux's builtin
> terminal emulator (it uses up the whole screen, there's no GUI layer of
> any kind), but it's a user program.
> 
> Try `aptitude install fbterm' and then run `fbterm' from your console
> command line.

Are we sure fbterm won't try to compose those characters, and create a
similar problem?  At least PuTTY seems to do that.