> I noticed multitail in wheezy shows weird characters if a line
> contains the hard tab character. Reproducer:
>     printf '\t\n' | multitail -j
> Results in (but is slightly different every time):
>         ^`^u^^?O.^`^`
> with all these characters inverted. Debian stable does fine.

Confirmed. Will be fixed in version 6.0 (that is not a typo).

> This smells like a out-of-range buffer access so the issue might be a
> bit serious, but I didn't check further.

Indeed it is.


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