Adam Borowski, on Fri 02 Sep 2016 05:30:10 +0200, wrote: > Let's see, printf 'a\e[3mb\e[0mc\n' (b should be italic, a and c should not) Err, here: * aterm: - * Eterm: - * gnome-terminal: + * konsole: + * lxterm: + * lxterminal: - * mlterm: + * pterm: - * roxterm: + * rxvt-unicode: + * screen: translate to inverse video * xfce4-terminal: - * xterm: + are you perhaps just not using a font which can do italic ? Samuel