It would be nice if special characters in a 'select' list could be escaped
by \[ and \], like in a prompt string. Presently, if a word in the list
contains special characters (e.g., '^[[42m;aha^[[0m;'), the formatting of
the list gets messed up.
COLUMNS=50
select a in "^[[42maha^[[0m" one two
Tristan Miller wrote:
> However, there still seems to be a problem when multibyte
> characters appear in the prompt in the last column of the
> terminal window. Specifically, when the last character in a line
> is multibyte, it is sometimes printed as "��".
>
> I initially thought that this was a t
