Re: bush-3.2 regression: breaked colour prompt.

[Chet Ramey]

Volkov Peter wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I use the following colored primary prompt string:
> PS1="\[\033[01;32m\]\w \$\[\033[00;00m\] "
> 
> Then I create directory with russian name. (locale ru_RU.UTF8). If I cd
> into directory in bash-3.1 everything works as expected but in bash-3.2
> cursor became positioned N spaces after $ and every typed character
> depart the previous the same N spaces. Well better to illustrate:
> 
> In bash-3.1:
> ~/tmp/bash/bash-3.1 $ mkdir тест
> ~/tmp/bash/bash-3.1 $ cd тест/
> ~/tmp/bash/bash-3.1/тест $ ls
> ~/tmp/bash/bash-3.1/тест $ #
> 
> In bash-3.2:
> ~/tmp/bash/bash-3.2 $ mkdir тест/
> ~/tmp/bash/bash-3.2 $ cd тест/
> ~/tmp/bash/bash-3.2/тест $                 l                s
> ~/tmp/bash/bash-3.2/тест $                 #
> 
> Where # denotes cursor position. You see that 'l' and 's' are separted
> with 8 spaces and initial cursor position also separated from $ on 8
> spaces. 
> 
> BTW. With PS1="\w \$ " everything works but there is no color :)

I can't reproduce this on Mac OS X, using Terminal or xterm.  I will
look further when I have access to a Linux machine.

Chet

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