[Bug 1297051] [NEW] gnome-terminal doesn't recognise C1 controls

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gnome-terminal seems not to recognise the C1 control characters.

The particular character that is a problem for me is CSI. However there
may be a generic issue with non-support of this whole range of
characters.

This range of characters should only be recognised when the encoding is
a character set that is defined to include the C1 control characters
but, at a quick look, that is all of the ISO-8859-x character sets and
Unicode. (C1 control characters require encoding as a 2 byte sequence
when the encoding is UTF-8. As unlikely as this may be to occur in
practice, UTF-8 is not inconsistent with C1 control characters.)

Part of the motivation for raising this bug report is that PuTTY seems
to have declined in reliability recently and so I looked at why I am
using PuTTY as opposed to gnome-terminal. Correct support of C1 control
characters is one reason. This works in PuTTY. It does not appear to
work in gnome-terminal. Perhaps resources would be better spent making
gnome-terminal work as well as PuTTY does, rather than attempting to get
PuTTY fixed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.1-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-18.32-generic 3.11.10.4
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 25 11:08:00 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-25 (881 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-11-08 (136 days ago)

** Affects: vte3 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug saucy
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gnome-terminal doesn't recognise C1 controls
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1297051
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