Items in "tasks" view missing first character

[Andrew France]

Please see the screenshot.

When running aptitude (via SSH inside iTerm 2 on Mac OS), the items in the "Tasks" view have their first character missing from the display.
For example, the first row says: "D/3D creation and editing suite" where it should start "2D/3D creation...".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: aptitude 0.8.3-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-39.42-generic 4.8.17
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-39-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 12 13:47:44 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-12-01 (100 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.1)
SourcePackage: aptitude
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[dino99 (9d9)]

This is an unsupported release now. Please think to install the next LTS 'Bionic 18.04'

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-next/daily-live/current/
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-18-04-minimal-install-option

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Marking as Invalid because the release is EOL is not correct. Marking as Incomplete. Also, 18.04 is (at the time of writing) still in development, and you should expect some breakage.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#Release_has_reached_End_of_Life_.28EOL.29

Reporter, is this still present on 17.10 or 16.04?

[Andrew France (andrew-avito)]

Hello, the bug is still present as reported in 17.10 with aptitude package 0.8.3-1ubuntu4.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Kenyon Ralph (kralph)]

Problem still exists with aptitude 0.8.13 on Ubuntu 22.04 jammy.

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Does someone plan to fix it?