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Box drawing characters with escape sequence Esc ( 0 are broken since 3.5.0

See original GitHub issue

Since Xterm.js version 3.5.0, box drawing characters using the escape sequence Esc ( 0, like \x1b(0\x6A\x1b(B, do not render correctly, while it was working with previous versions.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character#Unix,_CP/M,_BBS

Details

Browser and browser version: Chrome
OS version: Mac OS X
xterm.js version: 3.5.0

Steps to reproduce

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/xterm@3.5.0/dist/xterm.css" />
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/xterm@3.5.0/dist/xterm.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="terminal"></div>
    <script>
      var term = new Terminal();
      term.open(document.getElementById('terminal'));
      term.write('Test \x1b(0\x6A\x1b(B\n')
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:14 (14 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

astefanutticommented, Jul 12, 2018

@Tyriar thanks for the very quick reply and fix. I confirm it works!

1reaction

jerchcommented, Jul 12, 2018

Oh well was wondering about that while doing #1399, guess this means “yes”.

@Tyriar Thanks for fixing it. 👍

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