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Problem

Command-output cursor overwrites can split surrogate pairs or hit the wrong character: 😀\x1b[1Gx leaves a lone low surrogate, 界a\x1b[3GZ appends instead of replacing a, and e\u0301a\x1b[2GZ replaces the accent. These bytes are folded by the shared server/client command-output path, independently of Ghostty.

Change

Measure cursor positions in terminal columns while keeping the output budget in UTF-16 units. Slice complete code points with their combining marks, clear the remaining cell when overwriting half a wide glyph, and carry a trailing high surrogate across chunks. Keep width/length caches incremental so long Unicode lines stay cheap to append; saved cursors, erasure, trimming and reconnect/resume use the same column accounting. Multi-line trimming charges only for units actually retained after safe Unicode cuts, preserving the available budget for later rows. The width lookup works without Intl.Segmenter, which Hermes lacks. This one shared module covers server, web/desktop and mobile folding, including remote replacement/resume frames; no wire contract or adapter changes are needed.

Scope and approval

This qualifies for the focused obvious-bug exception: it corrects corruption in existing cursor-control handling, with no new setting or workflow. Open PRs were rechecked before implementation. #29884 handles tabs and explicitly leaves UTF-16 accounting unresolved; this leaves tabs unchanged. #27948 concerns Ghostty glyph rendering and #32217 concerns setup-output truncation. #28924 optimizes the scanner; this keeps its scanning behavior unchanged. Full grapheme shaping (ZWJ/VS16 sequences) remains outside this scalar-width fix. The pre-existing resume mismatch when a very small serialized tail discards the active cursor row is also unchanged; it reproduces on the pre-PR base with ASCII alone. Runtime comparison.

Verification

• 11 focused regression cases failed on the original implementation, including all three audit reproductions. All 45 shared tests now pass. Tests cover every two-chunk split and resume at every split, styled runs, partial wide-character replacement/erasure, bounded tails, saved cursors, and endless ASCII/CJK/emoji/styled-CJK lines.
• vp run scenarios:prove scripts/scenarios/unicode-output.e2e.ts --base 2828f28145 --head 59cfd1df77 exits 0: failsOnBase: true, passesOnHead: true. Both sides reach the real expanded command-output panel; the original fails on the expected Unicode output. The scenario and replay recording are attached as evidence, keeping the committed regression at the shared layer. The later budget correction has a focused failing-before/passing-after regression in the same shared test case: surrogate-pair and combining-mark boundary cuts now preserve the following row ("bx\nZ"), instead of dropping it ("bx\n").
• Existing server CommandOutputHub and client-runtime commandOutput tests pass. No duplicate regression tests at those wrapper layers.
• Integrated pass in an isolated dev home with the free Replay provider: the real expanded command-output panel displays x , 界Z, and éZ from the raw audit bytes. UI verification used no paid agent turns or live database writes. Native desktop/mobile sessions were not tested separately.
• vp run check:changed --concurrency 1 passes: formatting, lint, both knip checks, typecheck of 41 affected packages, and 47 focused tests across two files.

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Reproduction scenario, replay input, runtime transcript and check summary.

Reviewed with review-loop: 2 rounds with Claude Opus 5.5. Reviewer verdict: approved for the Unicode implementation. Its long-line performance finding was fixed with incremental cache updates; advisory full-grapheme shaping was left out of scope. The subsequent one-line safe-cut budget correction was verified with a failing-before/passing-after regression and the full shared suite.

Created with GPT-6.1 Sol in the Codex harness (T3 Code).

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 2b19003

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This change preserves Unicode characters during command-output overwrites and keeps cursor positioning aligned with display columns. Its effects are limited to bounded output rendering and resynchronization, with the existing output budget unchanged.

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Walkthrough

Terminal output handling now measures line operations and cursor positions in terminal columns. It keeps the output budget in UTF-16 units and carries a trailing high surrogate across input chunks. Tests cover Unicode overwrites, trimming, and cursor restoration.

Changes: Unicode terminal output

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Column-width line operations packages/shared/package.json, packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.ts	The package adds East Asian width measurement. Line slicing, trimming, writing, and erasing use terminal columns and preserve complete wide characters and associated zero-width marks.
Terminal cursor handling and validation packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.ts, packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.test.ts	Terminal writes and output-budget trimming adjust cursor positions by terminal width while retaining the UTF-16-unit budget. Chunked input retains a trailing high surrogate. Tests cover overwrites, bounded tails, saved cursors, and resumed output.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: dananz, juliusmarminge, maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to b56a6

This change makes terminal output overwrites preserve Unicode text by measuring cursor positions in terminal columns. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains. The known resume limitation for a serialized tail that drops the active cursor row predates this change and is unchanged.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "fix(shared): preserve Unicode during command output overwrites" matches the main change. The changeset makes cursor overwrites in the shared command-output path measure terminal columns, so…
Description check		The description follows the template's sections: Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification. The Problem section gives reproductions and expected behavior. The Change section explains the column-based c…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The title "fix(shared): preserve Unicode during command output overwrites" matches the main change. The changeset makes cursor overwrites in the shared command-output path measure terminal columns, so wide characters, combining marks, and surrogate pairs are preserved. It follows the conventional commit format and names the affected package.

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The description follows the template's sections: Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification. The Problem section gives reproductions and expected behavior. The Change section explains the column-based cursor accounting and why the change stays in one shared module. The Scope section explains why the fix qualifies as an obvious-bug exception and links related open PRs. The Verification section gives specific test counts, the scenario command with results, and before/after screenshots. It also states what was not tested (native desktop and mobile sessions). The template's Scope section asks for a linked issue. The description links open PRs and an evidence release but does not link an issue that shows the bug. It explains why no issue is needed, which the template allows for small obvious fixes. The agent-model line is present at the end.

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Evidence

On both commits, replay the raw output of printf '😀\033[1Gx\n界a\033[3GZ\ne\xcc\x81a\033[2GZ\n', open the completed thread, expand Worked for, then expand its printf command row. Environment: Chromium web client, 1280×800, light theme, fresh synthetic state. Base shows x�, 界aZ, eZa; head shows x , 界Z, éZ.

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Scenario driver

scenarios:prove exited 0: fails on base and passes on head.

Not shown:

• Chunk-boundary and resume-frame variants were not separately exercised; the scenario viewed persisted output of a completed command.
• The precomposed U+00E9 control was not separately repeated; the decomposed-accent command exercised all three reported failure symptoms.