Re: bash strangeness with utf-8

2007-07-09 Thread Joe Peterson
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? But also, I have tried this in the simple

Re: bash strangeness with utf-8

2007-07-09 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Giraud wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Then try 'env -i bash --noprofile --norc'. If that > > instance of the shell doesn't exhibit the problem, then you > > know for sure it's something in the environment. > > Initially, after entering this plain shell, the problem does not > exist. However

Re: bash strangeness with utf-8

2007-07-09 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Giraud wrote: > Hmm, interesting. Please don't top-post. > Yes, I do have PROMPT_COMMAND set, it appears. However, if I > unset it (and even also 'export PS1="foo "' to set PS1 to a > simple string), the problem remains. Then look at a new typescript, and see if that strange 1034h is still th

Re: bash: no job control in this shell

2007-07-09 Thread JimK
Bob Proulx wrote: > > >>Internally bash will use the libc isatty(3) routine to determine if >>the input/output files are tty devices. In the shell these are >>available in the 'test' operator as the '-t' file operator. > >> $ test -t 0 && echo input is a tty >> $ test -t 1 && echo output is