[BUG] Thai text renders garbled/staggered and screen flickers on Windows Terminal (2 machines, 2 accounts)
Status Open
Reported on v2.1.289
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Activity 0 comments · opened Oct 5, 2026
Environment
- Claude Code version: 2.1.289
- OS: Windows 11 Home 10.0.26300
- Terminal: Windows Terminal (PowerShell profile)
- Language of conversation: Thai
What happens
- Thai text (which uses zero-width combining vowel/tone marks) is drawn at the wrong horizontal positions: lines are shifted/staggered and wrap mid-word.
- Markdown tables break apart completely.
- The bottom status line ("auto mode on · ...") gets duplicated several times.
- The screen flickers while output streams, and gets much worse when scrolling with the mouse wheel.
- The user cannot even see the text they are typing in the input box, so the CLI is unusable.
Reproduced on
- 2 different computers (home and office) and 2 different Claude accounts, so it is not specific to one machine.
Steps to reproduce
- Run
claudein Windows Terminal on Windows 11. - Have a conversation in Thai where the assistant replies with paragraphs, lists and a markdown table.
- Scroll with the mouse wheel.
Expected
Thai text aligned normally, as in other terminal programs.