Filter out control characters that don't do anything #15075
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Up to now we've using `U+2E2E` (reverse question mark) to represent the `SUB` control glyph. This PR changes the glyph to `U+2426` (substitute form two), which is also rendered as a reverse question mark, but is more semantically correct. The original `SUB` control rendering was implemented in PR #15075. I've manually confirmed that `printf "\x1A"` is now shown as a reverse question mark in OpenConsole when using the Cascadia Code font. That would not previously have worked, because `U+2E2E` is not supported by Cascadia Code. Closes #16558
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Up to now we've using `U+2E2E` (reverse question mark) to represent the `SUB` control glyph. This PR changes the glyph to `U+2426` (substitute form two), which is also rendered as a reverse question mark, but is more semantically correct. The original `SUB` control rendering was implemented in PR #15075. I've manually confirmed that `printf "\x1A"` is now shown as a reverse question mark in OpenConsole when using the Cascadia Code font. That would not previously have worked, because `U+2E2E` is not supported by Cascadia Code. Closes #16558 (cherry picked from commit 92f9ff9) Service-Card-Id: 91559316 Service-Version: 1.19
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Up to now we've using `U+2E2E` (reverse question mark) to represent the `SUB` control glyph. This PR changes the glyph to `U+2426` (substitute form two), which is also rendered as a reverse question mark, but is more semantically correct. The original `SUB` control rendering was implemented in PR #15075. I've manually confirmed that `printf "\x1A"` is now shown as a reverse question mark in OpenConsole when using the Cascadia Code font. That would not previously have worked, because `U+2E2E` is not supported by Cascadia Code. Closes #16558 (cherry picked from commit 92f9ff9) Service-Card-Id: 91559315 Service-Version: 1.18
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On a real VT terminal, most of the control characters that don't do
anything are supposed to be filtered out, and not written to the buffer.
Up to to now, though, we've only been filtering out
NUL. This PRextends our control processing to filter the remaining characters that
aren't supposed to be displayed.
We introduced filtering for the
NULcontrol in PR #3015.The are two special cases worth mentioning.
The
SUBcontrol's main purpose is to the cancel a control sequencethat is in progress, but it also needs to output an error character (a
reverse question mark) to the display.
The
DELcontrol is typically filtered out, but when a 96-characterset is designated, it can sometimes be mapped to a printable glyph that
needs to be displayed.
Validation Steps Performed
I've manually tested that all the controls that are meant to be filtered
out are no longer being displayed.
I've also extended the existing
NULunit test to cover the full set ofcontrols characters that are supposed to be filtered.
Closes #10786