Dear Maintainer,


   * What led up to the situation?
    trying about whith german Umlauten encoded with combining characters
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
    i created a textfile that displays right in firefox, libreoffice and
    xterm, but wrong in gnome-terminal, gedit and konsole
   * What was the outcome of this action?
    i was confused on what software implements it right which wrong
    (guessing firefox, soffice and xterm doing it right but your modern
    open source stuff wrong, but am not sure)
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
    that all software would display it the same

see attatched screenshots and text file

thanks for looking in to this and hopefully fixing it

Hi,

As you've also noted, gnome-terminal is not the only app misbehaving here.

See also some of the followup comments (not the original report) in
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/2624 , same story.

It's a problem with some of the fonts, or some font rendering component of
the system.

The bug should be triaged accordingly, it's not gnome-terminal or libvte
that needs fixing. Unfortunately I cannot help any further (I'm not a
Debian developer, just a random commenter.)

cheers,
egmont