Text disappears when typing certain characters

[Matthijs Nicolai]

When typing one of the following characters, the last word typed (up to the previous whitespace) disappears:
_ # &

After typing another character, all text reappears.

When typing % sign, it does not show until another character is typed.

Testcase:
Type: Hello world[#/_/&]
'world' disappears
typeing any character and all becomes visible again.

getprop output: maguro
device: galaxy nexus

Another example is words ending in 'w'
Steps:
1. open terminal (I am using a mir enable galaxy nexus)
2. type abcwcwcw

expected result:
text does not disappear when typing

actual result:
text disappears when w is the last letter

[Nicholas Skaggs (nskaggs)]

Is this an upstream bug or something internal to terminal app? I've seen this disappearing text occur on the device in many different scenarios.

[Mathijs Veen (matv1)]

its still there on utopic image #107 device: mako

in my case: the w does not appear at all although the cursor moves. when the next character is typed, both the w and that new letter both appear.

[Mathijs Veen (matv1)]

this only happens when fontsize is under 18. increasing it makes it output normally.

[Kill Animals (kill-animals)]

I am going to add a font select option in the preferences. Fonts like courier do not suffer from this bug.

[Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton)]

It should still work with Ubuntu Mono, though. Adding a font selection option is a workaround, not a fix.

[Kill Animals (kill-animals)]

@Christopher and developers.

I linked a branch where you can select the font. Its good as a start, but the font entries are manually added and should really have a way to add them depending on the directory. Anyway; You should be able to easily switch to different fonts, which brings me to ubuntu mono:

The trouble with ubuntu mono, is that the bottom of the characters are cut off, and so it needs a little bit of work.

[Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot (ubuntu-phone-apps-jenkins-bot)]

Fix committed into lp:ubuntu-terminal-app at revision 167, scheduled for release in ubuntu-terminal-app, milestone alpha-1