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Summary

biome format --stdin-file-path=x.js > x.js rewrites to ! and to inside the file.

The console rewrites those symbols when the output doesn't support colours, so diagnostics stay readable on terminals that can't render them. Source code echoed to stdout goes through the same path and gets the same treatment.

Closes #10395.

Second attempt at this. The first put a <Verbatim> element in markup!, which is a decision about the writing medium expressed in the presentation vocabulary, and left <Info><Verbatim>{foo}</Verbatim></Info> undefined — that patch dropped the colour, in either nesting order.

Source code isn't console UI, so it no longer goes through markup at all. Console::print_verbatim writes it to the stream as it is and markup! is untouched. Characters a terminal would execute are still replaced, so printing a source file can't drive the terminal.

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Both binaries, same pipeline, xxd on the resulting file:

in      const a = "⚠✔"      e2 9a a0  e2 9c 94
before  const a = "!√";     21        e2 88 9a
after   const a = "⚠✔";     e2 9a a0  e2 9c 94

format_stdin_keeps_non_ascii_source covers it in biome_cli. Put the call site back to console.append and it fails with const a = "!√";.

BufferConsole now records whether a message was verbatim, because the snapshot harness re-renders messages through the terminal writer. Ignore that flag with the fix in place and the test still fails the same way, so without it a CLI test can't observe this at all.

Unit tests in biome_console::write cover the symbols, control characters and multi-codepoint graphemes. One asserts the markup path still rewrites the same symbols, so the fallback is scoped rather than removed.

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The console API now supports verbatim messages and output. Verbatim writing preserves Unicode source characters and replaces unsafe zero-width graphemes. Formatter, linter, assistant, and stdin paths use verbatim output for source content. Snapshot rendering recognises verbatim messages. A regression test covers non-ASCII stdin formatting. A changeset documents the fix.

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crates/biome_console/src/write/termcolor.rs (1)

347-368: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the separate write_str path.

This test passes INPUT through {INPUT}. Add a literal-content case that exercises write_str directly. Add a colour-enabled case if forced-colour output is part of this regression.

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- Around line 31-37: Update the rustdoc for the Verbatim variant to limit
byte-preservation guarantees to terminal writers, and state that other writers
may apply output-specific escaping such as HTML escaping. Keep the existing
description of avoiding terminal-readability rewrites for terminal output.
- Around line 34-35: Replace literal Unicode symbols in the documentation and
comments at crates/biome_console/src/markup.rs lines 34-35 with U+2714, at
crates/biome_console/src/write/termcolor.rs lines 349-350 with U+26A0 and
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In `@crates/biome_console/src/write/termcolor.rs`:
- Around line 357-358: Update the comment near the NoColor console resolution to
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phrase “used to apply” with wording that explains this condition exercises the
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- Around line 22-24: Update ConsoleExt::append and the Verbatim branches in
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/// for diagnostics — the ASCII fallback for symbols such as `✔`, the
/// replacement of zero-width characters, or colour escapes. Use it for text

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove literal Unicode symbols from changed documentation.

The same repository rule is violated in all three locations. Use Unicode code-point notation in prose.

  • crates/biome_console/src/markup.rs#L34-L35: Replace the literal rustdoc example with U+2714.
  • crates/biome_console/src/write/termcolor.rs#L349-L350: Replace the test-comment examples with U+26A0 and U+2714.
  • .changeset/fix-stdin-non-ascii-rewriting.md#L5-L5: Replace the changeset examples with code-point notation.

As per coding guidelines, do not use emojis in source code, comments, rustdoc, diagnostics, tests, snapshots, commit messages, issues, pull-request comments, or agent output.

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363-368: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove visual Unicode glyphs from the test comment.

Use the existing Unicode code-point identifiers and character names instead. The visual glyphs are redundant and violate the no-emojis rule.

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implementation, covering both literal write_str and interpolated write_fmt
calls. Use colour-enabled Ansi output, mark content as verbatim, and compare the
resulting bytes directly with the original input to verify no colour escapes are
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Comment on lines +45 to +50
// Verbatim content is data, so it must not be wrapped in colour escapes.
if verbatim {
run(&mut self.0)
} else {
with_format(&mut self.0, elements, run)
}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Add colour-enabled verbatim tests.

Test both literal (write_str) and interpolated (write_fmt) verbatim content with Ansi. Compare the output bytes directly with the input to cover the bypass at lines 46 and 75.

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Pushed 63818489f7. Going through the review points:

Control characters — this one was real, thanks. Bypassing the sanitizer wholesale meant a source file could hand escape sequences straight to the terminal. Confirmed on the branch before the fix:

non-verbatim -> "a\u{FFFD}[31mb"
verbatim     -> "a\u{1b}[31mb"

So Verbatim now only turns off the readability rewrites — the ASCII fallback and the colour escapes. Neutralising control characters is a safety guard rather than a readability one, so it applies either way. SanitizeAdapter carries a verbatim flag instead of being skipped, which also means the zero-width replacement keeps working. Pinned by test_verbatim_still_sanitizes_control_characters.

I did not reach for a terminal-interactivity check. It would have to be threaded down from the console into a writer that is generic over W, and it isn't needed once the control-character guard stays on unconditionally.

Docs on the variant. Reworded: the guarantee is now scoped to terminal writers, and it says other writers may still apply their own escaping. That matches what the HTML writer does, where escaping is correctness rather than terminal readability.

write_str vs write_fmt. Fair — the existing test only covered the interpolated path. Added test_verbatim_literal_content_reaches_the_writer_unchanged for the literal one. Forced colour is covered end to end rather than in a unit test; --colors=force was half of the original report.

Comment wording. "used to apply" was misleading now that the fallback still applies to everything else. Reworded.

Code-point notation in docs and the changeset — skipping this one. This file already writes the symbols literally on main: // 1. Convert diagnostic UI symbols (✔ ℹ ⚠ ✖) to ASCII for better readability at termcolor.rs:194, plus the test constants at 327 and 356. Changing only the lines I touched would leave the file inconsistent with itself.

Gates after the change: cargo fmt --all -- --check clean, cargo clippy -p biome_console -p biome_cli --all-targets clean, 904 CLI tests and 21 console tests green. format still byte-identical for the reported input under default, --colors=off and --colors=force, and lint and check too.

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Restored.

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The solution doesn't make sense to me. Can you explain your decisions?

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SanitizeAdapter rewrites ✔ ⚠ to ASCII when !supports_color(). That is meant to mean "colours are off, assume a terminal that can't render Unicode", but it is also false when stdout isn't a terminal at all, so biome format --stdin-file-path=x.ts > x.ts rewrites to ! inside the file.

What I tried first:

  • editing unicode_to_ascii! and are what diagnostics want, so that breaks the case the table exists for
  • checking "is this a terminal" instead of supports_color()WriteColor only has supports_color, set_color, reset and is_synchronous, so it would have to be threaded down from the console into every writer

So the writer gets told what it is writing instead of guessing from where it goes. Verbatim means data rather than UI: skip the ASCII table and with_format, keep the control-character sanitising. unicode_to_ascii is unchanged and its tests still pass.

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I don't think this is the right solution:

  • mixes presentation (markup!) with the writing medium (the sanitazer)
  • it's not very clear what happens with e.g. <Info><Verbatim>{foo}</Verbatim></Info> and vice versa. Essentially presentation markup that explicltely write symbols and colours

The console rewrites symbols such as ✔ and ⚠ to ASCII when the output does
not support colours, so diagnostics stay readable on terminals that cannot
render them. Source code echoed to stdout goes through the same path, so
`biome format --stdin-file-path=x.ts > x.ts` rewrote those characters inside
the file.

Source code is not console UI, so it no longer goes through markup at all:
Console::print_verbatim writes it to the stream as it is. Characters a
terminal would execute are still replaced.

Closes biomejs#10395
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the output is not byte-transparent and callers requiring exact UTF-8
preservation should use another API.

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Comment on lines +41 to +49
/// Prints content that is data rather than console UI, such as source code
/// echoed back to the caller, and must reach the output as it is.
///
/// [Self::print] takes markup, which the terminal implementation renders
/// with colour escapes and an ASCII fallback for symbols such as `✔`.
/// Neither belongs in content the caller may redirect into a file.
///
/// It adds no line at the end.
fn print_verbatim(&mut self, level: LogLevel, content: &str);

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the sanitisation exception.

print_verbatim is not byte-transparent. write_verbatim replaces non-whitespace zero-width graphemes with U+FFFD. State this exception so callers do not use this API when they require exact UTF-8 preservation.

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the print_verbatim method to state that write_verbatim replaces non-whitespace
zero-width graphemes with U+FFFD, so the output is not byte-transparent and
callers requiring exact UTF-8 preservation should use another API.

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Fair, the doc overstated it. Pushed b12e52dac6: it now says the terminal implementation still replaces the characters that terminal would read as commands.

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// Grapheme segmentation is considerably more expensive than validating ASCII bytes.
if content.is_ascii()
&& content
.bytes()
.all(|byte| !byte.is_ascii_control() || byte.is_ascii_whitespace())
{
return writer.write_all(content.as_bytes());
}

let mut buffer = [0; 4];
let mut segment_start = 0;

for (offset, grapheme) in content.grapheme_indices(true) {
let is_whitespace = grapheme.chars().all(char::is_whitespace);

if !is_whitespace && UnicodeWidthStr::width(grapheme) == 0 {
writer.write_all(&content.as_bytes()[segment_start..offset])?;
writer.write_all(
char::REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER
.encode_utf8(&mut buffer)
.as_bytes(),
)?;
segment_start = offset + grapheme.len();
}

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Does Rust's char::is_whitespace return true for U+000B VERTICAL TAB and U+000C FORM FEED?

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Yes, Rust's char::is_whitespace method returns true for both U+000B (VERTICAL TAB) and U+000C (FORM FEED) [1][2]. The is_whitespace method is defined to return true for any character that has the Unicode White_Space property [3][1]. According to the Unicode Character Database (UCD), both U+000B and U+000C possess this property. In the Rust standard library implementation, the method uses an optimized fast path for ASCII characters [1][2]. The code matches specifically against these characters: ' ' | '\x09'..='\x0d' => true Because this range ('\x09'..='\x0d') includes both '\x0B' (U+000B) and '\x0C' (U+000C), they are explicitly identified as whitespace [1][2]. Note that this behavior is distinct from is_ascii_whitespace, which uses the WHATWG Infra Standard definition and explicitly excludes U+000B [3][4][5].

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printf '%s\n' '--- Unicode classifications ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
for codepoint in (0x0009, 0x000A, 0x000B, 0x000C, 0x000D):
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rg -n -C 3 'unicode-width|unicode-segmentation' Cargo.toml Cargo.lock crates/biome_console

printf '%s\n' '--- control-character handling across the console crate ---'
rg -n -C 3 'U\\+000B|U\\+000C|VERTICAL|FORM.?FEED|is_whitespace|is_ascii_whitespace|ascii_control' crates/biome_console

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try:
    data = urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=10).read()
    print(f"unicode-width 0.1.12 archive bytes: {len(data)}")
    open("/tmp/unicode-width-0.1.12.crate", "wb").write(data)
except Exception as exc:
    print(f"download unavailable: {exc}")
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      | rg -n -C 2 '000B|000C|control|width' | head -80 || true
fi

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import urllib.request

urls = {
    "unicode-width 0.1.12": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-rs/unicode-width/unicode-width-0.1.12/src/lib.rs",
    "unicode-segmentation 1.13.2": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-rs/unicode-segmentation/v1.13.2/src/grapheme.rs",
}
for name, url in urls.items():
    try:
        text = urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=10).read().decode()
        print(f"{name}: {len(text)} bytes fetched")
        for needle in ("control", "width", "CR", "LF"):
            hits = [i + 1 for i, line in enumerate(text.splitlines()) if needle in line]
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tar -xOf "$tmp" unicode-width-0.1.12/src/lib.rs \
  | rg -n -C 5 'control|zero|width|ASCII' | head -120

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Sanitise vertical-tab and form-feed controls.

The ASCII fast path and general path both allow U+000B (vertical tab) and U+000C (form feed), which can alter terminal output state. Use an explicit allow-list for \t, \n, and \r. Apply the same fix to SanitizeAdapter in crates/biome_console/src/write/termcolor.rs. Add regression tests for both controls.

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In `@crates/biome_console/src/write.rs` around lines 27 - 50, The ASCII fast path
and general sanitization logic in the write implementation must allow only tab,
newline, and carriage return among ASCII whitespace; reject vertical-tab and
form-feed controls. Apply the same explicit allow-list in SanitizeAdapter, and
add regression coverage verifying both controls are sanitized in each path.

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Not doing this here. VT and FF already pass through SanitizeAdapter on main, so this isn't something the PR introduces — measured on b51d8b1598 with no changes:

markup VT:  in="a\u{b}b"  out="a\u{b}b"
markup FF:  in="a\u{c}b"  out="a\u{c}b"
markup ESC: in="a\u{1b}b" out="a\u{FFFD}b"

write_verbatim gives the same three results, which is the intent — it mirrors the existing control-character handling and only skips the ASCII fallback.

Changing it would mean editing SanitizeAdapter, which every diagnostic goes through, in a PR that otherwise leaves termcolor.rs untouched. Worth its own issue if it holds up.

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Both hold. Measured on that branch:

<Info>x</Info>                        -> "\x1b[0m\x1b[34mx\x1b[0m"
<Info><Verbatim>x</Verbatim></Info>   -> "x"
<Verbatim><Info>x</Info></Verbatim>   -> "x"

is_verbatim scanned the whole element stack and skipped with_format for the run, so either nesting silently dropped the colour.

Pushed a different approach. Source echoed to stdout doesn't go through markup at all now: Console::print_verbatim writes it to the stream, markup! and the sanitizer are untouched, so there's no interaction left to define. Characters a terminal would execute are still replaced.

BufferConsole records which messages were verbatim, because the snapshot harness re-renders messages through the terminal writer. With the fix in place and that flag ignored, the new CLI test still fails with const a = "!√";.

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