In RH bugzilla we have open bug impeaching right behavior of -x option. Reporter is using japanese environment and is trying:
bash -x -c "echo \"あいうえお\"" echoing any japanese sentence. and bash write out: + echo $'\343\201\202\343\201\204\343\201\206\343\201\210\343\201\212' sentence in octal digits. He is arguing that -x turn on debugmode and wants to see readable japanese sentence. My opinion is that -x isn't debugmode and this is right behavior. I think there must be any reason why the echo is called with octal digits, but I really don't know why? Maybe it's something in readline... bugzilla is awailable at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447836
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