gnome-terminal: Does not erase unicode characters properly

[Ryan Lovett]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.9.2-0ubuntu1
Severity: normal

I put the ⁉(or ?! character, in case that doesn't display) in my copy
buffer and pasted it into a gnome-terminal with its character encoding set
to UTF-8. When I delete the character, with Backspace or Control-U, it
removed bits of my prompt as if it were counting each element of the
character rather than the character itself. I recorded a small movie of
this behavior which shows me backspacing, then typing Control-U, then
copying and pasting normal text.

I copied the character with galeon from
http://mako.yukidoke.org/copyrighteous/reflections/20041226-00.html


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-control-center 1:2.9.3-0ubuntu4    The GNOME Control Center for GNOME
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.16-6            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.9.0-0ubuntu1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0        0.2.6-5             Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0         2.8.0-0ubuntu2      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0       2.8.0-0ubuntu1      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                2.3.2.ds1-19ubuntu3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0              0.2.35-2            Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1       2.2.3-2ubuntu1      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6         2.1.7-2.3           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4          2.9.2-0ubuntu1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11          1.2.0-11            LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0          1:2.5.0-0ubuntu1    Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.6.0-0ubuntu1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0    0.4.0-2             GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0          2.8.0-5ubuntu1      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.8.0-1             A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0         2.8.0-3             The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0       2.9.2-0ubuntu2      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11          1.0.16-13           GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0        1.0-1               library for common error values an
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.6.0-0ubuntu1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhowl0             0.9.8-1ubuntu2      Library for Zeroconf service disco
ii  libice6              6.8.1-1ubuntu8      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62            6b-9                The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libncurses5          5.4-4               Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  liborbit2            1:2.12.0-0ubuntu1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.8.0-0ubuntu1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0             1.7-5               lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6               6.8.1-1ubuntu8      X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notificat 0.8-0ubuntu1        library for program launch feedbac
ii  libtasn1-2           0.2.10-4            Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libvte4              1:0.11.11-5         Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6             6.8.1-1ubuntu8      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxft2              2.1.2-6             FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxml2              2.6.11-5ubuntu1     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1          0.9.0-0ubuntu4      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper         0.3.14-9.1          A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                6.8.1-1ubuntu8      X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.2-4ubuntu1    compression library - runtime

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