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Re: bash prints numeric values of unicode characters instead of their UT
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: bash prints numeric values of unicode characters instead of their UTF8 representations |
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Sun, 31 Jan 2016 19:53:18 -0500 |
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On 1/31/16 4:41 PM, Yuri wrote:
> I have this line in ~/.bashrc:
> PS1=$'\\[\e[0;38;5;202m\\]\u2514\u2023\\[\e[0m\\] '
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> My command prompt looks like this:
> root2514root2023
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> What makes bash print unicode charater ascii values?
In this case, probably that iconv fails to convert that value into a valid
character in the current locale.
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