I see this as well. Using the OP's code, italics work in gnome-terminal (and KDE's konsole), whereas they do not in terminator. I'm not sure how to work out which vte a terminal uses, but when I installed gnome-terminal to test, it also pulled vte3 0.38.3.
I see this as well. Using the OP's code, italics work in gnome-terminal (and KDE's konsole), whereas they do not in terminator. I'm not sure how to work out which vte a terminal uses, but when I installed gnome-terminal to test, it also pulled vte3 0.38.3.