On 2016-07-13 18:24 -0700, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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?
On the latter. With the default font I see no corruption, but with the
9x15 font, for instance. See the attached screenshot.
Cheers,
Sven
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