+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1459451 +++

A character in the last column of a terminal gets erased if
* it is colored and the following character (if one exists) is not, OR
* it is not colored and the following character is.

Occurs in all environments I've tested. These include:
* RHEL (over ssh) and Fedora
* bash and ksh
* agetty and xterm

Use cases include:
* colored output of grep (the most serious case I suppose)
* colored output of gcc

Note that a bash alias for automatic grep output colorization is present by default in both RHEL and Fedora.

I don't know where the problem is, but I'm filing this against glibc, because it seems to be the most sensible factor common to all the software affected/involved.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bash-4.2.46-20.el7_2.x86_64 (RHEL 7.3)
bash-4.3.43-4.fc25.x86_64 (F25)
ksh-20120801-31.fc25.x86_64 (F25)
glibc-2.17-157.el7.x86_64 (RHEL 7.3)
glibc-2.24-4.fc25.x86_64 (F25)

Steps to Reproduce:
$ echo $COLUMNS
23
$ alias grep
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
$ echo 12345678901234567890123|grep 23
1234567890123456789012
$ echo 123456789012345678901234567890|grep 3
12345678901234567890124567890

Actual results:
In the first "echo|grep" call above, the last character ('3') is missing. In the second call, the last character '3' is missing in the string.

Expected results:
Both above "echo|grep" calls output the same string that appears as the parameter of echo.

--- Additional comment from Roman Žilka on 2017-06-07 10:17:30 CEST ---

Correction/observation: all the utilities that produce colored output that I've tested this on print bold+colored characters, not just colored.

--- Additional comment from Florian Weimer on 2017-06-28 11:32:41 CEST ---

I can reproduce this with xterm-327-2.fc25.x86_64 and with screen-4.5.1-2.fc25.x86_64 and screen-4.5.1-2.fc24.x86_64 running in a GNOME terminal.  gnome-terminal-3.22.1-5.fc25.x86_64 and vte291-0.46.2-1.fc25.x86_64 do not seem to have this bug when displaying the output directly (without an intermediate screen).

It is actually unrelated to grep and glibc.  It looks more like a common terminal emulator bug.

This command always writes the same bytes:

printf '1\33[01;31m\33[K23\33[m\33[K45678901\33[01;31m\33[K23\33[m\33[K45678901\33[01;31m\33[K23\33[m\33[K\n'

If the terminal is exactly 23 characters wide, the string is truncated and the last 3 is not displayed.

I could reproduce this with screen-4.1.0-0.23.20120314git3c2946.el7_2.x86_64, so reassigning to that component.  If you use a different terminal emulator under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, we need to clone this bug.