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Bug 743867 - Strip unprintable chars from cwd before making it the title
Strip unprintable chars from cwd before making it the title
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: vte
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.39.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: VTE Maintainers
VTE Maintainers
[vte.sh]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-02-02 16:03 UTC by Egmont Koblinger
Modified: 2021-03-23 20:21 UTC
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Description Egmont Koblinger 2015-02-02 16:03:33 UTC 
egmont@foo:~$ mkdir $'abcd\aefgh'
egmont@foo:~$ cd $'abcd\aefgh'
efghegmont@foo:~/abcdefgh$ 

If the current directory contains unprintable characters, e.g. BEL in this case, it's passed to the window title terminating the OSC 0 escape sequence and returning to literally print the rest or even try new escape sequences.

Unprintable characters (at least the ones that can terminate this sequence: BEL and ESC (part of ST)) should be removed from cwd before setting the title.
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2021-03-23 20:21:04 UTC 
I think we can call this fixed, since vte-urlencode-cwd %-encodes these characters.