Bug#827905: Character U+2028 can yield file corruption when edited in xterm
On 2016-07-13 20:15:49 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> I don't see the behavior which is described, and haven't seen any
> suitable justification for marking this as a "grave" issue, rather
> than "normal". Keep in mind that this is a rarely used line-break
> character.
This is not common, but this was sufficient to *silently* corrupt one
of my files (what makes things really worse is that the corruption
doesn't seem to appear immediately, and one notices it when it may be
too late).
> What I see on the screen is a box-outline for the nonprintable
> character (no space).
Could this depend on some library version or on the font?
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