On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:46:14PM +0200, Thomas De Contes wrote: > Description: > > 1 > when i do > PS1="&# $PS1" > then I have problems since there is some accents in my command lines :
What is the value of PS1 before you prepend ampersand-hash-space to it? What does the ampersand-hash-space have to do with the problem? > i heard that you had the problem without having to do > PS1="&# $PS1" > and that you corrected it in that case Who's "you"? Aren't you, Thomas, the person having the problem? > 2 > without doing > PS1="&# $PS1" > i don't have problem when there is just one accent on a small line, but i > have a lot of them when the command line is larger than the terminal and is > displayed on several lines in the terminal At first glance this looks like the classic "I have colors in my prompt and I forgot to put \[ \] in the right places", but it's hard to be sure because the description is so confusing. > Repeat-By: > > make a file and give it a name containing an accent In what locale? UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, or what? Is the accented character a single-byte character, or a multi-byte character, in your locale? > 1 > - execute > PS1="&# $PS1" > - drag & drop the file with the accent > - use "top arrow" and "bottom arrow" to move in the history : > at each time you move on the line containing an accent, it eats one character I did this in an ISO-8859-1 locale and did not reproduce the problem. Then I did it on a UTF-8 locale (differet computer) and also did not reproduce the problem. Granted, I'm controlling the UTF-8 X session from the mouse and keyboard that are on the ISO-8859-1 machine, but od -t x1 tells me that the file name I created on the UTF-8 machine has a multi-byte character in it, so I'm not sure what is required to reproduce the issue.
