On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:17:48PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Stefan Sperling:
> 
> > What specific problem are you looking at?
> 
> tog's log view dealing with the attached repository.
> 
> There are two ESC characters in the commit message.  They are escaped
> to "^[", but then the next line is offset by 4 characters.
> 
> This would be consistent with ESC being handled as a zero-width
> character, and a later instance (curses itself?) turning them into
> visible sequences.

One thing we could do is this. Keeps the display intact, at least.

diff 3f670bfb38a502b7309f7db354b9d4f767ea12fc /home/stsp/src/got
blob - ee044a71602208bed395a517f0354d580be3407f
file + tog/tog.c
--- tog/tog.c
+++ tog/tog.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
 
 #include <ctype.h>
+#include <wctype.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
 #include <curses.h>
@@ -1175,8 +1176,12 @@ format_line(wchar_t **wlinep, int *widthp, const char 
 
 	i = 0;
 	while (i < wlen) {
-		int width = wcwidth(wline[i]);
+		int width;
 
+		if (iswcntrl(wline[i]))
+			wline[i] = L'?';
+
+		width = wcwidth(wline[i]);
 		if (width == 0) {
 			i++;
 			continue;