fix(tty): preserve navigation keys and bound canvas control output - #637
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Fix navigation keys rendering as private-use Unicode in embedded terminal apps after Kitty negotiation, and prevent canvas tail controls from escaping their placement rectangle and erasing neighboring UI.
Functional keys use their specified CSI encodings, with modifiers and negotiated release events preserved. Key-name normalization is shared across encoders. Canvas writes enforce bounds at the cell boundary and discard control-only output while preserving SGR styles and OSC 8 links. The bounded target is reused for row drawing. The Lua SDK is unchanged.
Validation:
The small runtime demo uses Bash for interactive editing. The desktop OS and Lineage applications are not included.
Protocol reference: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol/#functional-key-definitions