On 2018-11-09 03:24, Václav Haisman wrote: > I have updated Cygwin after a while and now my prompt looks like > this: \ufeffUSER@MACHINE. There appears to be some sort of UNICODE > character at position 0 in $USER environment variable. Running `echo -n > $USER | od -t x1` prints `0000000 ef bb bf 68 61 69 76 61 30 31`. Does > anyone else observe this as well?
\ufeff 0xef 0xbb 0xbf is a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark which usually appears only in UTF-8 files created by MS products. Is this set by a login script somewhere which does a conversion from UTF-16 or to UTF-8? -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
