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

[Yuri]

On 02/03/2016 13:13, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Sigh.  You are mixing two things that perform backslash-escape character
> processing.  If there is no character corresponding to a particular unicode
> value in the current character set, the escape sequence is left unchanged.
> So you get through a round of expansion with the $'...' processing, and the
> \u2514 is preserved in the result.  The PS1 expansion code sees the \u and
> turns it into the current username.

At least U+2023 is a valid character, it should be printed in utf8 as a unicode 
codepoint. My locale is utf8.

And why the same escape character is interpreted in two different ways within 
the same piece of software?

Yuri