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Midnight Commander version and build configuration

master

Operating system

all

Is this issue reproducible using the latest version of Midnight Commander?

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How to reproduce

UTF-8 locale, UTF-8 terminal.

Set up prompt in .bashrc to print the directory (if you don't have it already), e.g.

PS1='\w$ '

Create a directory containing an invalid UTF-8 in its name, such as the string abcdéfghi encoded in latin1:

mkdir $'abcd\351fghi'

Enter this directory.

Outside of mc, the directory in the prompt should appear as abcd�fghi or so.

Inside mc, in its command line prompt, it's displayed as abcdhi: no replacement symbol, and the next two letters fg are swallowed.

To spice it up, let's use some color changing escape sequences, and put the invalid UTF-8 at the end of the directory name:

PS1='\[\e[31m\]\u@\w\[\e[0m\]$ '

mkdir $'abcd\351'  # abcdé encoded in latin1

The prompt in mc appears as abcd0m$ . The two stripped bytes are now ESC [, resulting in the rest of the escape sequence getting interpreted verbatim.

Expected behavior

Synchronize immediately after an invalid UTF-8, preserve and interpret every valid UTF-8 character (including the escape byte starting the escape sequence).

Actual behavior

Characters get lost after invalid UTF-8.

Additional context

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