@Egmont Koblinger: Thank you for your response and explanation. While setting the width two wide might look better for single lines, it's pretty much unusable (the cursor does not get displayed at the right column).
I've also found another related bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/932958 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1570533 Title: wrong character width with Ubuntu Mono and replacement fonts in gnome- terminal: Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I'm using Ubuntu Mono in gnome-terminal. When displaying some unicode (non ascii) characters that are not in Ubuntu Mono and a fallback font is used, the spacing between the glyphs is wrong (too small). The fallback characters are double width, but the next character is display after a single width, leading into overlapping characters. If I see this correctly, gnome-terminal is using libvte which is using pango to render text. I therefore checked how pango renders this with `pango-view --font="Ubuntu Mono 32" --markup --text='<span fallback="true">xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A▷C✚D⚑F↓G↑H..I☺J</span>'` and `pango-view --font="Ubuntu Mono 32" --markup --text='<span fallback="true">xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A▷C✚D⚑F↓G↑H..I☺J</span>'` . In both cases double with characters or "replacement boxes" are displayed and no overlapping occurs. If I use the "monospace" font, no overlapping occurs in gnome- terminal. Whose fault is this and how can it be fixed? I'm on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS, gnome-terminal's version is 3.6.2-0ubuntu1, tf-ubuntu-font-family 0.80-0ubuntu6 and everything is up to date. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1570533/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
