Debian 8.6 QTerminal has garbage characters with VNC

I’ve run VNC without issues. Haven’t tried your specifics. Next shot I get I’ll load up QTerminal.

Have you tried reporting the issue to QTerminal developers? I’ve seen some other garbled text issues reported in their tracker. Have you confirmed the issue doesn’t occur with a local keyboard?

https://github.com/lxde/qterminal/issues