GNU bug report logs - #19347
24.4.50; Display of bengali text

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:57:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #68 received at 19347 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: schwab <at> suse.de, rms <at> gnu.org, 19347 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19347: 24.4.50; Display of bengali text
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 05:42:03 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:40:17 -0500
> Cc: schwab <at> suse.de, 19347 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >> 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.
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