Ekaterina Gerasimova
kittykat3756@gmail.com 2014
Display ambiguous-width characters as wide instead of narrow.
Luciana Bastos de Freitas Menezes
lubfm@gnome.org 2007.
Pedro Vaz de Mello de Medeiros
pedrovmm@gmail.com 2007.
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
leonardof@gnome.org 2008.
Andrius da Costa Ribas
andriusmao@gmail.com 2008.
Enrico Nicoletto
liverig@gmail.com 2009, 2013.

# Characters look too narrow

Some characters, such as some Greek letters and Asian logograms, can take up either one or two cells in a terminal window. These characters are often referred to as ambiguous characters. By default, these characters are displayed with a narrow width in Terminal, which looks better in situations where perfect layout is important, such as in ASCII art. You can change your profile preferences to display ambiguous characters as wide, which can be better if you are reading running prose.

Open Edit Preferences Profiles.

Select the profile that you want to edit and press Edit to open the profile preferences for editing.

Open the Compatibility tab and set the ambiguous-width characters to Wide.