text in italics appears as boxes

Bug #1958012 reported by Krister Swenson
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Bug Description

An update to my system has broken italics support in gnome terminal. This makes it hard to edit latex files with VIM, since VIM will show all text within \emph{} as boxes.
If I type the following command at the prompt

=> echo -e "\e[3mfoo\e[23m"

I get three empty boxes where the letters "foo" should be. See the attached screenshot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.38.1-1ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-rc4-soffixes x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu71
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Jan 15 11:18:28 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-10-12 (94 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Release amd64 (20210420)
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to impish on 2021-10-14 (92 days ago)

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