[Konsole-devel] [Bug 139169] Random display corruption in UTF-8 mode

[Robert Knight]

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------- Additional Comments From robertknight gmail com  2007-02-04 18:11 -------
> Perhaps the corrupted character's encoded form is split between 
> two fixed-size buffers (given the look of corrupted display)... 

I thought about that, but internally Konsole uses a Qt class to do the decoding which can remember state information between calls.  So if you decode a buffer which ends with the first half of a two-byte character, that final character will not be added to the output until the other half is available when the next batch of input comes in.  But yes, I agree that I think this is where something may be going wrong.

I cannot reproduce the problem in KDE 3, but under KDE 4 it does not show up if you execute:

cat file-attached-to-this-report | sed ''

Can anyone who is able to reproduce this in KDE 3 try running the above command?