Bug#455688: Black boxes sometimes displayed instead of spaces

[Sebastian Dröge]

Am Montag, den 10.12.2007, 17:17 -0800 schrieb Matt Kraai:
> Package: gnome-terminal
> Version: 2.18.3-1
> 
> When I use GNU Emacs in a Terminal window, the cursor is sometimes two
> characters wide and there are sometimes black boxes displayed instead
> of spaces.  This doesn't happen using xterm.  To reproduce the
> problem, I run emacs.  Column number mode must be disabled.  Once I
> press the space bar seven times, the cursor is two characters wide, in
> the seventh and eigth columns.  If I enter a non-whitespace character
> while the cursor is visible (i.e. hasn't blinked away), the black box
> in the seventh column is still shown (e.g., "      Ba" where "B"
> represents the black box and "a" is the character I entered).

Do you still have this with the gnome-terminal version from unstable?
This would be libvte9 0.16.10-1 and gnome-terminal 2.18.3-1.
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