Subject: Re: bug#78474: 31.0.50; Wrong char insertion in rxvt

From: Samuel Thibault <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:06:22 +0200

Eli Zaretskii, le mar. 22 juil. 2025 14:45:15 +0300, a ecrit:
> > Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:02:00 +0200
> > From: Samuel Thibault <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: Seb Hinderer <[email-masked]>, [email-masked],
> > 	[email-masked], [email-masked]
> > 
> > Eli Zaretskii, le lun. 21 juil. 2025 18:51:42 +0300, a ecrit:
> > > I'm not aware of any bugs with this behavior, on any terminal we
> > > support.
> > 
> > It is buggy on rxvt, as the very first mail of this whole thread talks
> > about:
> > 
> > https://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/tmp/coucou.png
> > 
> > The cursor it two times too big.
> 
> Ah, okay.  Apologies for forgetting that.
> 
> However, that seems a rxvt-specific bug, which should be solved there.

It's also in vte, where it matters for accessibility. And we have a
*hard* time getting it fixed (the upstream bug has been lying there for
a decade already).

We mentioned rxvt because it is easy to see it there.

And again, I have not yet found a document that explicitly says what
terminals are supposed to do for the content.

Samuel