Bug#1123877: xterm: display issue with the U+0FE0 character

Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.x
Message-ID <20260220015105.GB3407__3586.46963011182$1771552411$gmane$org@qaa.vinc17.org>
Control: reopen -1
Control: found -1 407-1

On 2025-12-23 14:10:51 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I've found this issue after an error in copy-pasting...
> 
> Note: For the test with the triple-click, make sure that
> "a" and ">" are in different character classes.
> 
> qaa% printf '<a\u0FE0>\n'
> <a࿠>
> 
> which appears as "<a>" (3 ASCII characters) in xterm. Then
> triple-click over the "a" character. This gives "<a>>" in
> reverse video, i.e. the last character is repeated.
> 
> And slowly moving a window over the xterm one from left to right
> transforms the "<a>" into "<a >" (with a space between the "a" and
> the ">").

Nothing has changed in xterm 407-1: both issues are still there.
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