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For every new terminal I test if they can handle tricky unicode or locking escape sequences.

I tried right now the kitty terminal available on Debian Buster, and echo -e "\033(0" still requires to reset the terminal (don't paste the above in your working session if you can't type reset without visual feedback).

P.S. still using Gnome-terminal that it doesn't handle locking escapes... ^__^;




can you explain what that does? It makes my iTerm2 screen wonderfully messy.


I think I've pulled that example from the Mosh shell, if you look at https://mosh.org/#techinfo you'll find other escape sequences that are still problematic for terminal emulators.


It's an "escape" sequence that should switch coding system, but I don't recall from where it came from, I need to check my notes.




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