wtf???

this happens only in this one terminal window

and only the shell is affected, i can’t even type # without it appearing as £

opening this file in vim is fine though!

TIL: there is an escape sequence that makes a line wide (\e#6), which Konsole apparently understands

   

Terminals are weird.
I'm having so much fun with this lmao
@nilsding why is this possible xD
@dancrescentwolf I have no idea, but my shell prompt is now    
@nilsding my Mastodon client interestingly gives each letter a grey background, making it almost look like the letters have been cut out from a newspaper heading. Also, that 'i' is chonky!
@dancrescentwolf
@FiXato @dancrescentwolf the emojis have that background :3

@FiXato @nilsding

I think these letters are basically emotes, tho ?

@nilsding @dancrescentwolf It's a feature of DEC terminals since the VT100 and is there for compatibility with them.

Not finding the hard evidence, but I wonder if this was originally a DECwriter feature they carried over to their video terminals.

@dancrescentwolf @nilsding

ESC # 3 DEC double-height line, top half (DECDHL)
ESC # 4 DEC double-height line, bottom half (DECDHL)
ESC # 5 DEC single-width line (DECSWL)
ESC # 6 DEC double-width line (DECDWL)
ESC # 8 DEC Screen Alignment Test (DECALN)
from the xterm docs

Xterm Control Sequences