mintty/mintty 2.8.1

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Character display

• Option Charwidth for built-in Unicode width or ambiguous wide mode (#88, #671).

Window and session control

• Virtual Tabs: additional SessionGeomSync levels (#699).
• Window icons can optionally be shown in session switcher (#699).
• Restore window frame when leaving fullscreen mode via escape sequence.

Pathname handling

• Relative pathname opening considers interactive working directory (~mintty/wsltty#19).
• Pathname opening accepts escaped space or embedding quotes (~mintty/wsltty#19).
• Relative pathname opening from WSL ignores improper directories (mintty/wsltty#19).

WSL support

• Made WSL parameter optional: --WSL.
• Option --WSL supports legacy-only installation "Bash on Windows" (mintty/wsltty#64).