Bug#395133: gnome-terminal: treats some Japanese FULLWIDTH chars as HALFWIDTH

[Takashi MATSUO]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.14.2-1
Severity: important
Tags: l10n


Some of Japanese FULLWIDTH symbol chars are shown as HALFWIDTH.

Here's an example utf-8 file.
http://mars.shehas.net/~tmatsuo/bts/symbols.txt

These chars are shown HALFWIDTH in uxterm without an option.
http://mars.shehas.net/~tmatsuo/bts/uxterm.png

And uxterm has a option '-cjk_width'. When this option is set, uxterm
treats these chars as FULLWIDTH.
http://mars.shehas.net/~tmatsuo/bts/uxterm-cjk_width.png

On the other hand, gnome-terminal treats these chars as HALFWIDTH.
http://mars.shehas.net/~tmatsuo/bts/gnome-terminal.png

But the form of some chars are FULLWIDTH, thus some chars eats into
each other. 

Additionally, Many Japanese terminal application treats them as
FULLWIDTH by historical reasons. So screen is broken on such
applications.

Can gnome-terminal have an option like -cjk_width?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-suspend2-2.2.8
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-control-center       1:2.14.2-3+b1 utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-terminal-data        2.14.2-1      Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.12.3-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.14.0-2      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                      2.3.6.ds1-7   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                2.16.0-2      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.0-2     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.12.4-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                2.16.0-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.14.1-2      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             2.14.2-2+b1   GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.8.20-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.0-2    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.14.7-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                   1.10-3        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.8-2         library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte4                    1:0.12.2-4    Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.3-2     X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.1-3     X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper               0.3.14-11     A free electronic cataloging syste

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  yelp                          2.14.3-1   Help browser for GNOME 2

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