Bug#677513: gnome-terminal: broken support for Unicode combining characters

Fri Jul 6 23:47:21 UTC 2012

reassign 677513 ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-8
retitle 677513 Combining diacritics out of place
thanks

On 2012-06-14 14:16:19 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Support for Unicode combining characters is broken in gnome-terminal,
> and text appears to be corrupted, giving incorrect information to the
> reader!

According to

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-liberation/+bug/299158

this is a font problem, because it occurs only with some fonts
(most monospace ones), and after some testing, I confirm.

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