Re: bash prints numeric values of unicode characters instead of their UTF8 representations

[Yuri]

On 02/03/2016 14:06, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Works for me.
>
> wooledg@wooledg:~$ PS1=$'\u2023 \w\$ '
> ? ~$
>
> I just can't show it in this cross-system-X2X-with-different-character-sets
> setup.  But it works for me, on Debian GNU/Linux with LANG=en_US.UTF-8.

I believe you. It does work for you. Just not for me.
Running echo $'\u2514\u2023' also prints '\u2514\u2023'. No idea what is 
broken. (running on FreeBSD-10.3)

> > >And why the same escape character is interpreted in two different ways
> > >within the same piece of software?
> Welcome to Bash.  It's got layers upon layers of new features, deprecated
> features, historical features, features mandated by external "standards",
> etc.

Doesn't sound like a positive thing to me -)

Yuri