gnome-terminal does not show devanagri characters properly

[piyush]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

When I use the india bolnagri or Hindi wx keyboard layouts, gnome terminal cannot show the devanagri characters properly. This problem is not there in other gnome application such as gnome-dictionary and gedit. In the terminal, Devanagri characters in names of files are also not shown correctly.

Thanks,
Piyush.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Dec 30 16:34:06 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-terminal 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:21711): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:21741): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:21734): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (Do:21748): Wnck-CRITICAL **: wnck_set_client_type got called multiple times.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

what's the problem, order or rendering? i'm sorry but i don't speak hindi.

[piyush (piyushsriva)]

Yes, I think technically it is a problem of ordering. In Hindi, some diacritical marks need to go to the left of the last type character,
or on top of it. Although gedit, as shown in the screenshot above can do that, gnome-terminal fails to do that.

Thanks,

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME . Thanks in advance!