Bug#456943: Weird colored output issues

[Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>]

Package: xterm
Version: 229-1
Severity: normal

        Hi,

 Got a surprizing issue with grep colored output today; it seems that if
 coloring starts around the end of the line, the last char is chopped.

 e.g.:
 echo "                                                                               1234" | grep --color=auto '[1-9]'
 (80 spaces and 1234)

 displays ... nothing.

 If I add more spaces or remove some, I see most of 1234 in red,
 but it's sometimes chopped at the end of the line.

 gnome-terminal works fine with the same test cases.

   Bye,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.7-4          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1            2.5.0-2        generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.4-1      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20071124-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                    2:1.0.3-1+b1   X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-7      X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                   2:1.0.4-1      X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext6                  1:1.0.3-2      X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                   2.1.12-2       FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                   1:1.0.3-1      X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.5-3      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xbitmaps                  1.0.1-2        Base X bitmaps

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  xutils                        1:7.3+8    X Window System utility programs m

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Loïc Minier