Method MakePrintable

Namespace

Terminal.Gui.Text

Assembly

Terminal.Gui.dll

MakePrintable(string)

Ensures the text does not contain control characters that could be emitted verbatim to the terminal, by translating C0 controls (U+0000–U+001F), DEL (U+007F), and C1 controls (U+0080–U+009F) to printable Unicode equivalents via the +U+2400 offset. Multi-character graphemes whose first character is a control are replaced with a space.

public static string MakePrintable(this string str)

Parameters

str string

The text.

Returns

string

A string safe for terminal display.

Remarks

This is a Terminal.Gui extension method to string to support TUI text manipulation.

Per UAX #29, control characters are always grapheme cluster boundaries. A well-formed grapheme cluster produced by GetTextElementEnumerator(string) cannot contain embedded controls, so only the first character needs to be checked.