Comment 5 for bug 181164

Also, please note that this is new behavior in Hardy. In Feisty and Gutsy, gnome-terminal handled UTF-8/Unicode input and output correctly—e.g., not displaying diamond-question marks for UTF-8 characters, and not transliterating, ignoring, or mishandling Unicode input by Unicode code point in the way that GNOME permits arbitrary Unicode input.

In Gutsy, for example, you could press C-S-u 2122 and you would get the trademark symbol (“™”), or C-S-u 3c0 and get pi (“π”). Presently, you get a transliterated trademark symbol (“(TM)”) and a question mark (“?”), respectively. This is a definite step backwards in an international world…