similar patches:
- konsole: http://git.pld-linux.org/?p=packages/kdebase.git;a=blob;f=kdebase-konsole-wordseps.patch
- Terminal: http://git.pld-linux.org/?p=packages/Terminal.git;a=blob;f=wordseps.patch

--- gnome-terminal-3.8.0.old/src/org.gnome.Terminal.gschema.xml.in	2013-03-25 18:47:46.000000000 +0100
+++ gnome-terminal-3.8.0/src/org.gnome.Terminal.gschema.xml.in	2013-03-27 21:56:08.515485756 +0100
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
       <_summary>Whether to ring the terminal bell</_summary>
     </key>
     <key name="word-chars" type="s">
-      <default>'-A-Za-z0-9,./?%&amp;#:_=+@~'</default>
+      <default>'-A-Za-z0-9,./?%&amp;#:_=+@~;'</default>
       <_summary>Characters that are considered "part of a word"</_summary>
       <_description>When selecting text by word, sequences of these characters are considered single words. Ranges can be given as "A-Z". Literal hyphen (not expressing a range) should be the first character given.</_description>
     </key>