Telnet to mapscii.me doesn't work (not enough xterm features)

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From @timfel on May 30, 2017 9:44

• Your Windows build number: (Type ver at a Windows Command Prompt)
  10.0.15063

• What you're doing and what's happening: (Copy&paste specific commands and their output, or include screen shots)
  Type telnet mapscii.me. This will connect to the server of this project: https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii. The expectation is to see an ASCII map of the world.

• What's wrong / what should be happening instead:
  Expected:
  

Got:

Copied from original issue: microsoft/WSL#2173

[bitcrazed]

From @sunjoong on May 30, 2017 13:38

@timfel - It looks like to be able to draw shape of land but not to print names in my case on unbuntu and gentoo on WSL;

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From @zadjii-msft on July 13, 2017 22:29

@timfel what font & size are you using? I believe that on Insider's builds, it works fine

Albeit, I couldn't find a font with the right characters

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From @shanselman on January 19, 2018 22:49

@tara-raj good test case for font fallback.

[miniksa]

We should check if this works with the font fallback support we have now and with the updates to VT we've done in course of getting the Terminal project going.

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