Bug#364486: gnome-terminal doesn't handle utf-8 anymore

[Bas Zoetekouw]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.14.1-1
Severity: important

In one of the last couple of upgrades, gnome-terminal stopped working
with UTF8 chars.  It won't display any non-ASCII7 chars (but just a
questionmark-like-char for each byte of a multibyte sequence), I can't
input any non-ascii chars anymore (using the compose key, in either
vim or on the command line) and I can't past any text containing
non-ASCII7 chars.  Other gnome apps (gedit, gvim, etc) work fine.

For example, if I echo an eacute (U+00E9, utf8 multibyte \0303\0251),
gnome-terminal just echoes 2 times the "inverse-video question mark"
(see attached screenshot).  For 3-byte multibyte chars (like U+098B, a
Bengali letter), three question mark symbols are displayed, and for
4-byte chars (like U+103A, old persian), two question marks are
shown.

The problem is independent of the font (tried several, the screenshot
shows Bitstream Vera Mono).  Everythign works fine in other X apps
(including normal xterm), so it's not a problem with my locales.

My locales are:

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.9
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-control-center        1:2.12.3-2   utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-terminal-data         2.14.1-1     Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.11.4-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.14.0-1     Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                       2.3.6-7      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.14.0-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.5.1-2+b1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.10.2-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.14.1-1     The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.14.1-1     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              2.14.1-1     GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.8.17-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.14.0-1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.12.1-2     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-5        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libstartup-notification0    0.8-1        library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte4                     1:0.12.0-2   Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.0.0-6    X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1                 1:0.9.0.2-4  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper                0.3.14-10.1  A free electronic cataloging syste

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  yelp                          2.12.2-4   Help browser for GNOME 2

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