starred/terminal
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/microsoft/terminal.git synced 2026-02-03 21:25:34 +00:00
Code Issues 19.0k Packages Projects Releases 20 Wiki Activity

[PR #8580] Add support for the "italic" graphic rendition attribute #27243

New Issue
Closed
opened 2026-01-31 09:20:50 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
claunia commented 2026-01-31 09:20:50 +00:00
Owner
Copy Link

Original Pull Request: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/8580

State: closed
Merged: Yes

This PR adds support for the ANSI italic graphic rendition attribute,
which is enabled by the SGR 3 escape sequence.

For the GDI renderer, I've just created an additional italic variant of
the font, and then the UpdateDrawingBrushes method selects the
appropriate font variant into the device context based on the requested
text attributes.

It's a bit more complicated in the DX renderer, because we need both an
italic variant of the font, and a variant of the text format object. The
CustomTextLayout class also had to be updated to hold the two font and
format instances, and decide which of the variants to use based on a
useItalicFont property in the drawing context, initially set in the
UpdateDrawingBrushes method.

Validation Steps Performed

I've created some test content using a range of different character sets
(e.g. CJK, block characters, emoji, etc.), then applied the italic
attribute mixed with various other SGR attributes to see how they
interact. The output isn't always perfect, but I think it seems
reasonable given the constraints of a cell-based terminal renderer.

Closes #5461

**Original Pull Request:** https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/8580 **State:** closed **Merged:** Yes --- This PR adds support for the ANSI _italic_ graphic rendition attribute, which is enabled by the `SGR 3` escape sequence. For the GDI renderer, I've just created an additional italic variant of the font, and then the `UpdateDrawingBrushes` method selects the appropriate font variant into the device context based on the requested text attributes. It's a bit more complicated in the DX renderer, because we need both an italic variant of the font, and a variant of the text format object. The `CustomTextLayout` class also had to be updated to hold the two font and format instances, and decide which of the variants to use based on a `useItalicFont` property in the drawing context, initially set in the `UpdateDrawingBrushes` method. ## Validation Steps Performed I've created some test content using a range of different character sets (e.g. CJK, block characters, emoji, etc.), then applied the italic attribute mixed with various other SGR attributes to see how they interact. The output isn't always perfect, but I think it seems reasonable given the constraints of a cell-based terminal renderer. Closes #5461
claunia added the pull-request label 2026-01-31 09:20:50 +00:00
Sign in to join this conversation.
No Branch/Tag Specified
Branches Tags
Labels
Clear labels
⛺ Reserved
A11yCO
A11yMAS
A11ySev1
A11ySev2
A11ySev3
A11yTTValidated
A11yUsable
A11yVoiceAccess
A11yWCAG
Area-Accessibility
Area-AtlasEngine
Area-AzureShell
Area-Build
Area-Build
Area-Chat
Area-CmdPal
Area-CodeHealth
Area-Commandline
Area-CookedRead
Area-DefApp
Area-Extensibility
Area-Fonts
Area-GroupPolicy
Area-i18n
Area-Input
Area-Interaction
Area-Interop
Area-Localization
Area-Output
Area-Performance
Area-Portable
Area-Quality
Area-Remoting
Area-Rendering
Area-Schema
Area-Server
Area-Settings
Area-SettingsUI
Area-ShellExtension
Area-ShellExtension
Area-ShellExtension
Area-Suggestions
Area-Suggestions
Area-TerminalConnection
Area-TerminalControl
Area-Theming
Area-UserInterface
Area-VT
Area-Windowing
Area-WPFControl
AutoMerge
Blocking-Ingestion
Culprit-Centennial
Culprit-WinUI
Disability-All
Disability-Blind
Disability-LowVision
Disability-Mobility
External-Blocked-WinUI3
Fixed
Gathering-Data
good first issue
HCL-E+D
HCL-WindowsTerminal
Help Wanted
Impact-Compatibility
Impact-Compliance
Impact-Correctness
Impact-Visual
In-PR
InclusionBacklog
InclusionBacklog-Windows TerminalWin32
InclusionCommitted-202206
Issue-Bug
Issue-Docs
Issue-Feature
Issue-Feature
Issue-Question
Issue-Samples
Issue-Scenario
Issue-Task
Needs-Attention
Needs-Author-Feedback
Needs-Bisect
Needs-Discussion
Needs-Repro
Needs-Tag-Fix
Needs-Tag-Fix
Needs-Triage
No-Recent-Activity
Priority-0
Priority-1
Priority-2
Priority-3
Product-Cmd.exe
Product-Colortool
Product-Colortool
Product-Colortool
Product-Conhost
Product-Conpty
Product-Meta
Product-Powershell
Product-Terminal
Product-WSL
pull-request
Mirrored from GitHub Pull Request
 Resolution-Answered
Resolution-By-Design
Resolution-Duplicate
Resolution-External
Resolution-Fix-Available
Resolution-Fix-Committed
Resolution-No-Repro
Resolution-Won't-Fix
Severity-Blocking
Severity-Crash
Severity-DataLoss
spam
this-will-be-a-breaking-change
Tracking-External
WindowsTerminal_Win32
Work-Item
zAskModeBug
zInbox-Bug
No Label pull-request
Milestone
No items
No Milestone
Projects
Clear projects
No project
Assignees
Clear assignees
claunia
No Assignees
1 Participants
Notifications
Due Date
No due date set.
Dependencies

No dependencies set.

Reference: starred/terminal#27243
Delete Branch "%!s()"

Deleting a branch is permanent. Although the deleted branch may continue to exist for a short time before it actually gets removed, it CANNOT be undone in most cases. Continue?