Re: XTerm: Preventing HIDDEN_CHAR in Printed Output

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 08:08:26AM -0600, admin@nosuck.org wrote:
> Hello, all.
> 
> Has nobody else noticed the 0xFFFF (unassigned Unicode U+FFFF) characters
> scattered about XTerm's print-everything output?  You might not see these
> characters in a shell, but $EDITOR (hex or otherwise) is liable to show them
> in between EVERY character.  This is not only annoying but also causes
> problems... though perhaps the problem is with my setup?  I run XTerm(388)
> with TERM=xterm-256color.  Please let me know what can be done.
> 
> Otherwise, I have attached a small patch that attempts to address the issue.
> Thank you!

> --- xterm-388/print.c.orig    2022-09-18 16:00:08.000000000 -0500

thanks for the report - but (like other terminal emulators), xterm's bugs
are off-topic (except of course as needed to demonstrate a problem in ncurses)

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net

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