Re: bash strangeness with utf-8

[Benno Schulenberg]

Giraud wrote:
> The following prompt is set in my .bashrc (but the same behavior
> happens if I do not set it or set it to a simple string, so I
> don't think this matters):
>
>       PS1="\[\033[33m\]\h-\u\[\033[36m\] [\w] (\!)\[\033[00m\] "
>
> PROMPT_COMMAND is not set.

Look at your typescript with vim.  You'll see this gets printed:

   ^[]0;joe@crater:~^G^[[?1034h

before your prompt is printed:

   ^[[33mcrater-joe^[[36m [~] (500)^[[00m 

Where is that first string coming from if not from PROMPT_COMMAND?  
It looks suspiciously similar to what Gentoo sets as prompt command 
in /etc/bash/bashrc.  :)  Except for this "^[[?1034h" at the end.
Where is that coming from?  It does strange things with the width of 
the terminal when I add it here to PS1.  So when you get rid of it, 
things might work correctly again.

Benno