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I have a program that outputs Bangla in the terminal. But unfortunately, the output is not displayed properly by gnome-terminal in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

The output should look like this:

আপনাদের দোকান কবে খোলা থাকবে?

Instead it looks like this with a Ubuntu Mono font:

Screenshot

Further it looks like this with Kalpurush font that supports Bangla:

Screenshot

I have checked with xfd to see if the bangla character range is available in the two fonts. As expected, Ubuntu Mono had empty boxes in the character range, whereas Kalpurush had correct representational symbols.

Additionally, locale is set to UTF-8. locale output:

LANG=en_US.utf8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

I have also tried with Bangla locale, but it did not work. Moreover, Terminal character encoding is also set to Unicode(UTF-8). Yet, nothing worked.

So, then I tried out Guake Terminal Emulator. But it did not work either.

Now what can I do more to fix this issue?

muru
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  • sudo apt install fonts-beng – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Sep 12 '17 at 08:16
  • fonts-beng is already installed and the newest version. – Asiful Nobel Sep 12 '17 at 09:00
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    Complex text rendering is not supported by VTE (the terminal emulation widget behind gnome-terminal and many more; let alone guake which uses an ancient version of VTE). See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584160. For the time being, you can try if one of the patches posted there gives you something good enough, or whether other (non VTE-based) emulators do it better. – egmont Sep 12 '17 at 11:21
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    Maybe use konsole instead of gnome-terminal: https://askubuntu.com/a/481786 – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Sep 12 '17 at 12:15
  • Thanks for the info. It is really amazing that people have not solved this bug yet. @egmont – Asiful Nobel Sep 12 '17 at 12:41

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It looks like your terminal font is set to Ubuntu Mono.

Install a font that does support the Bangla language, such as the Lohit Bengali font.

This should fix your problem.

Shivam Singh
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