Public bug reported: gnome-terminal seems not to recognise the C1 control characters.
The particular character that is a problem for me is CSI. However there may be a generic issue with non-support of this whole range of characters. This range of characters should only be recognised when the encoding is a character set that is defined to include the C1 control characters but, at a quick look, that is all of the ISO-8859-x character sets and Unicode. (C1 control characters require encoding as a 2 byte sequence when the encoding is UTF-8. As unlikely as this may be to occur in practice, UTF-8 is not inconsistent with C1 control characters.) Part of the motivation for raising this bug report is that PuTTY seems to have declined in reliability recently and so I looked at why I am using PuTTY as opposed to gnome-terminal. Correct support of C1 control characters is one reason. This works in PuTTY. It does not appear to work in gnome-terminal. Perhaps resources would be better spent making gnome-terminal work as well as PuTTY does, rather than attempting to get PuTTY fixed. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.1-0ubuntu6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-18.32-generic 3.11.10.4 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-18-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Mar 25 11:08:00 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-25 (881 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: gnome-terminal UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-11-08 (136 days ago) ** Affects: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug saucy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1297051 Title: gnome-terminal doesn't recognise C1 controls To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1297051/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs