Created attachment 6994 Illustration of appearance of terminal window due to bug When using xfce4-terminal, I normally work in an environment with the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) character encoding and therefore have Preferences -> Advanced -> Encoding set to "Default (ISO-8859-1)". Until recently I was using Fedora 23 Linux with xfce4-terminal 0.6.3, but have recently changed to Fedora 25 with xfce4-terminal 0.8.4, or to be exact, Fedora RPM "xfce4-terminal-0.8.4-1.fc25.x86_64". Since this change, my character-encoding setting become broken if I ever reset the terminal -- either by the menu item "Terminal -> Reset" or "Terminal -> Clear Scrollback and Reset", or if an application sends the 2-character escape sequence "ESC c" to the terminal. Possibly the xfce4-terminal is now expecting UTF-8. Non-ASCII characters from a file of ISO 8859-1 text typically display as invalid-character blobs. If I do "Terminal -> Set Encoding ->" when the terminal is in this broken state, the setting "Default (ISO-8859-1)" is still marked as being set. However, if I actually select that item from the menu, then it clears the problem and restores the normal effect of my setting. I'll attach an illustration of the appearance.
By the way, my actual name is Mark Brader. Apparently I made a typo when creating the account.
Hi Mark, Thanks for the report. In fact, this bug belongs to vte - a terminal widget library xfce4-terminal is based on. There's a bug report against vte (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777747); I'm afraid there's nothing we can do here but wait for its resolution upstream.
vte has reported the issue as fixed - closing this one.