Description of problem:

In current vte/gnome-terminal is not possible to display correctly India scripts like
Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, possibly others in any terminal emulator
(konsole, gnome-terminal, xterm).

Try to run rhn-client-tools this way

  LANG=kn_IN.utf-8 rhn_register --nox

this is the result now: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=302857

The first problematic part is the slang component but only half of the problem
could be fixed there. 

(slang maintainer's opinion)
> It's probably caused by a slang bug. However, even with this fixed there will
> still be some corruption left as it seems that no terminal emulator in RHEL5
> supports Indic scripts.
(see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=228240#c33)

The second problem is the missing India script being supported in RHEL5.2
terminal emulators.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

slang-2.0.6-4.el5.i386
rhn-client-tools-0.4.17-8.el5.noarch

How reproducible:

always

Actual results:
messed output in terminal

Expected results:
correct output in terminal

Additional info:

I am not aware of any terminal supporting Indic scripts right now.