Your message dated Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:49:08 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1123509: fixed in xterm 406-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #1123509,
regarding xterm: various issues with the U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 (VS16)
character after emoji
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Package: xterm
Version: 405-1
Severity: important
With xterm 405, the use of the U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 (VS16)
character after an emoji can completely corrupt the display with
Mutt. GNU Screen also gets broken with the command below (issues
with the last line of the terminal). I suspect that this is due
to an inconsistency between the xterm behavior and wcwidth(),
which may affect various applications that rely on wcwidth().
I have not checked wcswidth().
But there are issues even with simple output. In a 80-column terminal:
perl -C -e 'print "\x{2642}\x{FE0F}"x60, "\n"'
I get "♂♂" in the last two columns, which is inconsistent with what
is output before. And in case of scrolling, the spaces are missing
in the second line.
And selection/deselection of such output gives random behavior.
In particular:
* Spurious ♂ characters appear where there were spaces.
* Some ♂ characters still appear in reverse video after everything
has been unselected.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,
'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'),
(500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.7.12-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.42-6
ii libfontconfig1 2.15.0-2.4
ii libfreetype6 2.13.3+dfsg-1
ii libice6 2:1.1.1-1
ii libtinfo6 6.5+20251123-1
ii libutempter0 1.2.1-4
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.12-1
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.16-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.4-1+b3
ii libxft2 2.3.6-1+b4
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.4-3+b4
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.3-3+b4
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.17-1+b3
ii libxt6t64 1:1.2.1-1.3
ii xbitmaps 1.1.1-2.2
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii luit [luit] 2.0.20250912-1
ii x11-utils 7.7+7
Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn xfonts-cyrillic <none>
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: xterm
Source-Version: 406-1
Done: Sven Joachim <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xterm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sven Joachim <[email protected]> (supplier of updated xterm package)
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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:27:15 +0100
Source: xterm
Architecture: source
Version: 406-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Sven Joachim <[email protected]>
Closes: 1123509
Changes:
xterm (406-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* New upstream release.
- Add option -emoji_width and resource emojiWidth to allow
enabling/disabling VS15/VS16 feature introduced in xterm 404
(Closes: #1123509). Also, work around display issues by changing
the filler character for VS16.
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