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WeeChat - Zero-Width Space (ZWSP)
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| The bridge bot of #powershell on freenode puts a zero-width space character after the first letter of Slack | |
| nicks, to avoid people who are on both sides of the bridge triggering their own @mention. | |
| Source machine: | |
| * Windows Version: Windows 10 Pro, Version 1709, 16299.431 | |
| * Font used in conhost: Consolas (for both OpenSSH on Windows Subsystem for Linux and Win32-OpenSSH) | |
| Target server: | |
| * Ubuntu version: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS | |
| * OpenSSH Server version: 7.2p2 | |
| Conhost mangles the ZWSP in several different ways when using WeeChat... | |
| * OpenSSH client (7.2p2) on Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS): | |
| * With tmux: A space appears between the first and second character in the nick. | |
| * Without tmux: Same behaviour. | |
| * Win32-OpenSSH client on both Command Prompt and PowerShell exhibit the same behaviour: | |
| * With tmux: The first character in the nick appears as an underscore. | |
| * Without tmux: A question mark appears between the first and second character. | |
| wsltty (Mintty as a terminal for Bash on Ubuntu on Windows / WSL) does not attempt to render the ZWSP and thus the nick is | |
| displayed correctly :) | |
| - Font used in Mintty: Consolas | |
| - [ ] Try upgrading the version of Win32-OpenSSH client. | |
| - [ ] Try with Putty??? | |
| - [ ] Repeat testing after installing latest Windows 10 April update. | |
| NB: The ZWSP is shown as follows in the 'irc.freenode.#powershell.weechatlog' log file: <200c> |
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OpenSSH on Windows Subsystem for Linux
Win32-OpenSSH on Command Prompt
OpenSSH on Windows Subsystem for Linux with wsltty as the terminal
