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

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.4.1.1-1
Severity: important

Support for Unicode combining characters is broken in gnome-terminal,
and text appears to be corrupted, giving incorrect information to the
reader!

For instance,

$ printf "a\u0305e\n"
a̅e

(Warning with the output you're seeing in the mail message: Debian's
BTS is known to occasionally corrupt non-ASCII characters.)

In gnome-terminal, this appears as "a" followed by an overlined "e"
instead of an overlined "a" followed by "e".

Combining characters apply to the previous character, not to the
following one.

http://unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gconf-service              3.2.5-1
ii  gnome-terminal-data        3.4.1.1-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.4.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                      2.13-33
ii  libgconf-2-4               3.2.5-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.4.2-1
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.8-2
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.30.0-1
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.1-2
ii  libvte-2.90-9              1:0.32.2-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.4.99.901-2

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs  1.12.3-1
ii  yelp  3.4.2-1

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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