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Re: Phil's prompt is not working when LANG is set to UTF-8



On Monday 11 February 2008, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:07:09 +0100
> antho.charles@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I didn't have this problem on Debian etch, but it appears when I
> > upgraded to lenny. It's the same problem: if I set LANG to a non utf8
> > encoding (fr_FR instead of fr_FR.UTF-8), RPROMPT is good, otherwise
> > it's partially on another line and the cusor is after RPROMPT.
> > (cf. http://tinyurl.com/3xjeqt)
> 
> Sounds like it ought to be fairly reproducible, but it's not happening on
> Fedora 8 (and it still sounds suspiciously like the shell is getting duff
> information about the environment, though that's certainly not the only
> possibility).  I've tried adding multibyte characters to the command line
> and complicating the RPROMPT and even adding multibyte characters to that,
> but it still works OK.
> 
> Are there any particular things on the command line, forms of RPROMPT etc.
> etc. that show this up?  (We really need something that narrows this down.)
> 

I can reproduce it on Mandriva cooker with locale en_US.UTF-8 or ru_RU.UTF-8. It 
does not matter whether there are UTF-8 characters on the screen (at least, I am 
not sure whether there are - en_US.UTF-8 should not emit any non-ASCII strings 
as far as I can tell).

I will try to find time on weekend to check more closely.

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