Invalid characters in terminal after special characters were displayed during prebuild
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Description
Bug description
Invalid characters in terminal after special characters were displayed during prebuild.

In the screenshot above -
Aftermc (Minio client) was running during prebuild (these are the green characters),
A new workspace opens with invalid characters in terminal (ie. 11;rgb:1e1e/1e1e/1e1e;1R)
I'm sure it's not related specifically to mc, but has to do with special characters that are displayed during prebuild.
But mc was the easiest example I could find to reproduce the problem I'm seeing.
Steps to reproduce
- Open the example repository in Gitpod - https://github.com/shaal/gitpod-test--invalid-characters-in-terminal
- When workspace open - confirm you see invalid characters in terminal
Workspace affected
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Expected behavior
Regardless of what special characters are displayed during prebuild, it should not affect the terminal in a new workspace.
Especially when these invalid characters are "typed" in the command line.
Example repository
https://github.com/shaal/gitpod-test--invalid-characters-in-terminal
Anything else?
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