On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 9:13 AM Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>
> > For some odd reason (bug?) a stray unprintable unicode character appears
> > several spaces over on the second line of every file I edit (even when
> the
> > second line is nothing more then a new line):
> >
> > // src/java/specmed/devinv/DevInvUtil.java
> >   � <-- The stray unicode character
> > Here is the output for cat -e of the first two lines of the same file:
> >
> > // src/java/specmed/devinv/DevInvUtil.java$
> > $
> >
> > Platform info:
> > OS: FreeBSD 11.2
> > Terminal type: ssh (xterm-256color) via xfce4-term 0.8.7.4 on xfce4
> desktop
> > (4.12)
> > Vim --version output:
> > VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Jan 25 2019 04:31:10)
> > Included patches: 1-676
> > Compiled by aryehl@timeless
> > Huge version with GTK2 GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
>
> Looks like a leftover for the 'ambiwidth' test.  This outputs a
> character in the second like and requests the cursor position, to find
> out the width of that character.  It is then overwritten by two spaces.
> The character used is 0x25bd, the character you see appears to be 0xfffd.
> I guess the terminal didn't properly clean up.
>
> The character is not in the text, how do you get it?
>

By simply opening the file (vim [file] -- no command line switches).... see
the resubjected thread for a lot more detail


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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org

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