[Bug 49058] Re: If a program/script outputs lots of binary data to screen, the whole terminal session becomes scrambled

[Chris Wagner]

Which ANSI escape sequences tell the terminal to garble its content,
tell it to switch encoding, or might cause such a phenomenon?

Did you try the script?  It garbles even the prompt (e.g., "chris at my-
computer:~$").  Checking the "Terminal -> Set Character Encoding" menu
reveals that the encoding is the same, before and after the garble:
UTF-8.

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If a program/script outputs lots of binary data to screen, the whole terminal session becomes scrambled
https://launchpad.net/bugs/49058