bug#19347: 24.4.50; Display of bengali text

[Eli Zaretskii]

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