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Re: [readline] Multibyte invisible chars cause weird prompt length calculation issue

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Subject Re: [readline] Multibyte invisible chars cause weird prompt length calculation issue
Date Mon, 25 Nov 2019 18:29:00 -0800
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On 2019/11/25 07:05, <rootlexx@mail.ru> wrote:
> # As you see, now everything works as expected i.e. the issue seems
> # to be in the way readline is handling multibyte invisible characters 
> # in a prompt, *probably* in the rl_redisplay() function.
>   
----
    Multi-byte or not, invisible characters need to be enclosed
as documented under 'PROMPTING':

     \[     begin a sequence of non-printing characters, which  could
            be  used  to  embed  a terminal control sequence into the
            prompt
     \]     end a sequence of non-printing characters

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Re: [readline] Multibyte invisible chars cause weird prompt length calculation issue L A Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> - 2019-11-25 18:29 -0800

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