gnome-terminal doesn't handle Unicode complex text rendering

Bug #381429 reported by Tax Man
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Terminal
Confirmed
Wishlist
vte (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

I've attached a screenshot showing the problem. When the correct Unicode text is copied from the Wikipedia edit box and pasted into the terminal, it gets mangled since complex text support is not respected as needed for Hindi and many other Asian languages. If I recall, previous versions of Gnome-terminal did not have this problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.26.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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Tax Man (taxman457f) wrote :
tags: added: regression-potential
Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Unknown → New
Revision history for this message
Tax Man (taxman457f) wrote :

upstream noted that this is an issue in vte, not gnome-terminal

affects: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) → vte (Ubuntu)
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Steve Beattie (sbeattie) wrote :

I've reproduced this locally in jaunty/9.04 (vte 1:0.20.0-0ubuntu2) but it looks like it was handled better in intrepid/8.10 (vte 1:0.17.4-0ubuntu1).

Changed in vte (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: jaunty regression-release
removed: regression-potential
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

thanks for sent it upstream.

Changed in vte (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in vte (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Fix Released → Fix Committed
Changed in vte (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Fix Committed
Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in vte (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

this is still not fixed, re opening

Changed in vte (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Triaged
Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Fix Released → New
Changed in gnome-terminal:
importance: Unknown → Medium
Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: New → Confirmed
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Manu MG (manumg007-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Same happens in Malayalam(ml) also.

Changed in gnome-terminal:
importance: Medium → Wishlist
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