Reply to post: Re: Wow. It's 2018 and "terminals" can still be hosed by sending files of control characters.

Text bomb, text bomb, you're my text bomb! Naughty HTML freezes Messages, Safari, etc

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Re: Wow. It's 2018 and "terminals" can still be hosed by sending files of control characters.

> Its not really. utf8 code maps to font character data, character gets drawn. I don't see the problem

Possibly you don't see the problem because of unfamiliarity with how font rendering actually works. Think of a string of characters (code points) to be rendered as a program with such things as control flow and subroutines.

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