On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 21:46:05 +1000 wraeth <wra...@wraeth.id.au> wrote:
> Another thought that I just had was that, if this only occurs after > running a command in the terminal and having that command output > something to STDOUT/STDERR, it's possible that it's corrupting your > terminal - the same as if you accidentally cat a binary file (which I > just did). I've noticed that the output of stty -a can differ slightly, so your idea sounds probable. > > Given that you're likely not outputting binary to your terminal from > running regular commands, have there been any changes to your fonts, > LANG or other localization/output related components? Definitely 'no' to my LANG/l10n settings, but fonts are a good candidate. The output of 'qlop -l font' shows only media-libs/fontconfig was updated anywhere near the relevant range of dates.
