देवनागरी font rendering in terminal vs gedit

Is there anyway to get terminal applications to render देवनागरी fonts in the same way as gedit? My goal is to be able to write emails in mutt/vim.

Screen shot of the problem:

http://ifup.org/~philips/hello-hindi.png

Notice the space between the consonant cluster स्ते vs स ते.

Thanks,

Brandon

Bug 553871 - देवनागरी font rendering in terminal vs gedit (vte)