Re: unexpected high-bit set characters in $USER variable

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 `000 ef bb bf 6

unexpected high-bit set characters in $USER variable

Hi. 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 `000 ef bb bf 68 61 69 76 61 30 31`. Does anyone else observe