VS Code Integrated Terminal displays 'UTF-8 Tamil Characters' in an overlapped manner

[Surya-NarayananS]

Type: Bug

Run the following python3 code: print("தமிழ்")

Expected Output: தமிழ்

Actual output in VS Code Integrated Terminal:

VS Code version: Code 1.76.2 (ee2b180d582a7f601fa6ecfdad8d9fd269ab1884, 2023-03-14T17:55:54.936Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22621 Modes: Sandboxed: Yes

System Info

|Item|Value| |---|---| |CPUs|AMD Ryzen 5 4500U with Radeon Graphics (6 x 2371)| |GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_renderer: enabled_on
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
webgpu: disabled_off| |Load (avg)|undefined| |Memory (System)|7.40GB (2.30GB free)| |Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id 9773666c-4159-4a28-80bc-29f43bc79876| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%|

Extensions (19)

Extension|Author (truncated)|Version ---|---|--- code-runner|for|0.12.0 isort|ms-|2022.8.0 python|ms-|2023.4.1 vscode-pylance|ms-|2023.3.30 jupyter|ms-|2023.2.1200692131 jupyter-keymap|ms-|1.1.0 jupyter-renderers|ms-|1.0.15 vscode-jupyter-cell-tags|ms-|0.1.8 vscode-jupyter-slideshow|ms-|0.1.5 cpptools|ms-|1.14.5 material-icon-theme|PKi|4.25.0 java|red|1.16.0 intellicode-api-usage-examples|Vis|0.2.7 vscodeintellicode|Vis|1.2.30 vscode-java-debug|vsc|0.49.0 vscode-java-dependency|vsc|0.21.1 vscode-java-pack|vsc|0.25.9 vscode-java-test|vsc|0.38.1 vscode-maven|vsc|0.40.4 (1 theme extensions excluded)

A/B Experiments

``` vsliv368cf:30146710 vsreu685:30147344 python383cf:30185419 vspor879:30202332 vspor708:30202333 vspor363:30204092 vslsvsres303:30308271 pythonvspyl392:30443607 vserr242cf:30382550 pythontb:30283811 vsjup518:30340749 pythonptprofiler:30281270 vsdfh931cf:30280410 vshan820:30294714 vstes263:30335439 vscoreces:30445986 pythondataviewer:30285071 vscod805:30301674 binariesv615:30325510 bridge0708:30335490 bridge0723:30353136 cmake_vspar411:30581797 vsaa593cf:30376535 pythonvs932:30410667 cppdebug:30492333 vsclangdc:30486549 c4g48928:30535728 dsvsc012cf:30540253 pynewext54:30695312 azure-dev_surveyone:30548225 pyindex848:30662994 nodejswelcome1cf:30587006 2e4cg342:30602488 pyind779:30671433 f6dab269:30613381 pythonsymbol12:30671437 6233i204:30672705 vsctsb:30677850 vscodedisable:30660115 pythonb192:30669360 defaultazurewalk:30687958 pythonms35cf:30686773 ```

[Tyriar]

This depends on ligatures coming to the terminal first https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/34103

[Surya-NarayananS]

Any way to work around this?