Bug 317516

Summary: No method to display unprintable/control characters
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: Eduard <e.bachmakov>
Component: emulationAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: a.samirh78, egmont
Priority: NOR    
Version: master   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Eduard 2013-03-29 01:08:18 UTC
Konsole should be able to represent control characters (e.g. STX, ETX, DLE, etc). Ideally it would either print the unicode character instead (e.g. ␂, ␃, etc.) or draw box containing the character code in matrix form (e.g. [0 0 0 2], [0 0 0 3], etc. )) which is how gnome-terminal does it.

How to test:
    echo '\02'
    echo '\03'

Expected:
    ␂
    ␃

Got:
    <nothing visible>
    <nothing visible>
Comment 1 Egmont Koblinger 2018-03-17 09:36:40 UTC
gnome-terminal is the odd one (buggy) here, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403130#c12. It'll probably get fixed in the next major release (vte-0.54).