On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 01:54:39PM -0800, Yuri wrote: > At least U+2023 is a valid character, it should be printed in utf8 as a > unicode codepoint. My locale is utf8.
Works for me. wooledg@wooledg:~$ PS1=$'\u2023 \w\$ ' ? ~$ I just can't show it in this cross-system-X2X-with-different-character-sets setup. But it works for me, on Debian GNU/Linux with LANG=en_US.UTF-8. > And why the same escape character is interpreted in two different ways > within the same piece of software? Welcome to Bash. It's got layers upon layers of new features, deprecated features, historical features, features mandated by external "standards", etc.
