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How does it account for character width? Isn't a sixel a 1-pixel wide, 6-pixel tall bitmap? Does an actual DEC terminal round them to the next character boundary? Can you write text to a line that started with sixels? Can you write sixels after outputting some characters in the same line? How does a vertical screen partition look like? Are sixel graphics compressed when the terminal is in 132-column mode?

I saw this video of an actual VT-320 terminal displaying sixel graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SasrQ7pnbA. Someone should check what the behavior is under tmux and screen (at least).

The person also has REGIS and 4014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afNuDH7QpYA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIF0sXQn0RI




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