GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 149633
gnome-terminal messes up boxdrawing chars aligment
Last modified: 2006-04-12 10:23:12 UTC
-export LANG=en_US.UTF8 -start gnome-terminal -select MiscFixed as font -less: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt At the bottom, the thin lines in the 5th and 6th box should be in the middle of the thick lines, on my system they are of by one pixel, all gtk apps have this, but gnome-terminal also messes up the alignment of the horizontal thick lines in the 6th box (and others)
That should be LANG=en_US.UTF-8
The reason for this is that vte draws some of the linedrawing characters graphically instead of using the font. Maybe it's time to switch that off (make it fallback only if the font doesn't have glyphs for them...)
I actually committed this. Got to wait and see how many regressions will be opened... 2006-04-12 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnome.org> * src/vte.c: Try to use the font first for all graphic characters. This results in better looking graphics with modern fonts.