Problem rendering a man page in new install. Help!

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>]

I'm finishing up an install of Wheezy with the latest netinst CD
(7.4). I noticed that I made a typo in one of the partition labels. I
typed "man tune2fs" to check my memory, I got a badly garbled text
with most of the hyphens and option letters missing, among other
things. Surely not a usable man page. But when I started composing
this letter, I cut and pasted (with mouse manipulation) a few lines
from the bash window into the emacs window, this is what appeared:

<start>
TUNE2FS(8)                                                                   TUNE2FS(8)

NAME
       tune2fs - adjust tunable filesystem parameters on ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystems

SYNOPSIS
       tune2fs [ -l ] [ -c max-mount-counts ] [ -e errors-behavior ] [ -f ] [ -i inter‐
       val-between-checks ] [ -j ] [ -J journal-options ] [ -m reserved-blocks-percent‐
       age  ]  [ -o [^]mount-options[,...]  ] [ -r reserved-blocks-count ] [ -s sparse-
       super-flag ] [ -u user ] [ -g group ] [ -C mount-count ] [ -E extended-options ]
       [  -L  volume-name ] [ -M last-mounted-directory ] [ -O [^]feature[,...]  ] [ -Q
       quota-options ] [ -T time-last-checked ] [ -U UUID ] device

DESCRIPTION
       tune2fs allows the system administrator to  adjust  various  tunable  filesystem
       parameters  on  Linux  ext2,  ext3,  or ext4 filesystems.  The current values of
       these options can be displayed by using the -l option to tune2fs(8) program,  or
       by using the dumpe2fs(8) program.

       The  device  specifier can either be a filename (i.e., /dev/sda1), or a LABEL or
       UUID  specifier:  "LABEL=volume-name"  or  "UUID=uuid".   (i.e.,  LABEL=home  or
       UUID=e40486c6-84d5-4f2f-b99c-032281799c9d).

OPTIONS
       -c max-mount-counts
              Adjust the number of mounts after which the filesystem will be checked by
              e2fsck(8).  If max-mount-counts is 0 or  -1,  the  number  of  times  the
              file system is mounted will be disregarded by e2fsck(8) and the kernel.

              Staggering  the  mount-counts  at  which filesystems are forcibly checked
              will avoid all filesystems being checked at one time when using journaled
              filesystems.
	      ...<ellipsis>
<end>

In particular, the headings "NAME", "SYNOPSIS", "DESCRIPTION", and
"OPTIONS" did not appear in the emulator window. I guessed that there
was something wrong with text rendering in my terminal emulator. I was
using gnome-terminal. I also have xfce-terminal, and xterm installed,
so I tried them, and they both gave very nice displays of the man
page. I conclude that there is something wrong with with my
installation of gnome-terminal.

In doing the recent install, I did not go directly to Xfce desktop, and
I attempted to save and restore my /home from an image of a previous
working /home, so I cannot say what, exactly, the configuration is,
and I cannot even guess where to look. But looking at what Aptitude
displays, there are both Xfce and Gnome (and Xwindows) packages
installed. Lightdm is the selected display manager. I want to use
Gnome-terminal because of the there emulators, Gnome gives me a better
interface for adjusting the size of emulator windows. My style of
working involves a lot of overlapping windows in a lot of workspaces.

Any quick fix? Or what further information can I provide? 
Thanks,
-- 
Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net