Re: bash strangeness with utf-8

[Benno Schulenberg]

Joe Peterson wrote:
> Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > On what terminal are you doing this?  To what encoding is the
> > terminal set?
>
> Mainly xterm (version 225, at least in one case).  And I have the
> utf8 option on.  Does this set the encoding to the proper value,
> or do I need more?

No idea, I use Konsole.  Better read man xterm.

> But also, I have tried this in the simple virtual terminal
> (ctrl-alt-f1, etc.), which also exhibits the problem.

Okay.  So what says a typescript in a blank shell with only LANG 
defined?  Does the ^[[1034h still get printed before the prompt?

Benno