Jfbterm (j framebuffer terminal/multilingual extension) can display multilingual text on linux framebuffer. it can display iso-2022 text such as iso-8859-{1-11,13-16}, iso-2022-{jp,cn,kr}, euc-jp, euc-kr (aka wangsung), euc-cn (aka gb2312 or cn-gb). it also supports utf-8, and other coding system such as shift_jis by using iconv(3).

it supports 8bpp packed-pixels pseudocolor and (15|16|24|32) bpp packed-pixels truecolor framebuffers. it also supports 1bpp, 2bpp, (and vga16fb on arch i386).