Bug 86792

Summary:	konsole inserts spaces into displayed text (utf8)
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Hans de Goede <jwrdegoede>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	esigra
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	Screenshot of spaces screenshot of konsole scrolling issue

Description Hans de Goede 2004-08-08 13:42:11 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.3)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
OS:                Linux

-export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-fire up konsole
-select MiscFixed as font
-less http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt

And scroll to the bottom, to the "Greetings in various languages:", the last greeting has a space between all the chars, this space shouldn't be there and it isn't there in for example kwrite (when using MiscFixed as font)

Comment 1 Kurt Hindenburg 2005-04-07 06:55:38 UTC

Can you try this using KDE 3.4.x?  A lot has changed since 3.2.x

Comment 2 Hans de Goede 2005-04-18 21:13:03 UTC

Still there in 3.4.0

Comment 3 Kurt Hindenburg 2005-11-20 00:35:00 UTC

Viewing the file in KDE 3.5, the kwrite and konsole version look almost the same.  I don't see the spaces you mention.  If you can try KDE 3.5 and provide a screenshot, it would be helpful.
I'm using Encoding->utf8

Comment 4 Hans de Goede 2005-11-23 19:23:36 UTC

I'm still seeing the spaces with 3.4.92 (latest kde in redhat rawhide)
I've attached a screenshot. I must say that UTF8 rendering does look quite bad in 3.4.92 all over.

At the right bottom of the screenshot you can see for example what the boxdrawing aligment should look like all 3 progs (konsole, kwrite and xterm) are using MiscFixed as font.

Also konsole seems to have redrawing issues if you scroll up with shift+page up after doing a cat UTF-8-demo.txt and then scroll down again and up again you see the |||        ||| from the math formulas all over the place. See screenshot-1.
Kwrite has the part of UTF-8-demo that contains the math formulas where the ||| come from. Also in xterm you can see what this part of UTF-8-demo should look like when displayed properly. Notice the aligment issues in the box around the euro test and notice the missing combining stuff in after the stargate text.

Comment 5 Hans de Goede 2005-11-23 19:24:31 UTC

Created attachment 13615 [details]
Screenshot of spaces

Comment 6 Hans de Goede 2005-11-23 19:25:14 UTC

Created attachment 13616 [details]
screenshot of konsole scrolling issue

Comment 7 Robert Knight 2006-08-07 05:52:10 UTC

Output appears correct in Konsole for KDE 4, as in the output of the window at the bottom right-hand corner of the "spaces" screenshot.  

Not sure when this got fixed, but it did.