Ekaterina Gerasimova
kittykat3756@gmail.com 2014
Display ambiguous-width characters as wide instead of narrow.
Fran Dieguez
frandieguez@gnome.org 2013.
Leandro Regueiro
leandro.regueiro@gmail.com 2011.

# 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.

Your current profile is selected in the sidebar. If you wish to edit a different profile, click on its name.

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