GNU bug report logs - #50983
28.0.50; [REGRESSION, BUG] Display bugs with uncommon characters

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rudi C <rudiwillalwaysloveyou <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 22:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Rudi C <rudiwillalwaysloveyou <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 50983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, alan <at> idiocy.org, rudiwillalwaysloveyou <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#50983: 28.0.50; [REGRESSION, BUG] Display bugs with uncommon characters
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2021 14:11:52 +0300

> From: Rudi C <rudiwillalwaysloveyou <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2021 14:30:56 +0330
> 
> Also, can you be more specific about where you do observe the bugs? In TUI emacs on iTerm? 
> 
> I can confirm that the bug with `weird.txt` happens on iTerm, too, again with both emacs and neovim! But the
> bug with `bug.txt` does not happen in iTerm, only on Kitty.

This sounds like the terminal emulators have a problem in supporting
unusual Unicode characters, such as zero-width or double-width
characters, perhaps?  I see no Emacs problem here, since it happens
only on some terminal emulators and not on others.
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