Bug#1110769: xterm: segfault in ScrnWriteText on 3-byte binary data
On 2025-08-10 20:57:26 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Then it's a bug in reverseWrap (not related to allowC1Printable).
Yes. I mentioned allowC1Printable because it was needed with
my first testcase (with xterm 398-1).
> Sure, it's a bug,
>
> reverseWrap (class ReverseWrap)
> Specifies whether or not reverse-wraparound should be enabled.
> This corresponds to xterm's private mode 45. The default is
> “false”.
>
> but it doesn't meet the criteria for "severity important":
>
> important
> a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without
> rendering it completely unusable to everyone.
This is some form of data loss: the whole shell session is lost
because of the crash.
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