On Monday 11 February 2008, Peter Stephenson wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:07:09 +0100 > antho.charles@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I didn't have this problem on Debian etch, but it appears when I > > upgraded to lenny. It's the same problem: if I set LANG to a non utf8 > > encoding (fr_FR instead of fr_FR.UTF-8), RPROMPT is good, otherwise > > it's partially on another line and the cusor is after RPROMPT. > > (cf. http://tinyurl.com/3xjeqt) > > Sounds like it ought to be fairly reproducible, but it's not happening on > Fedora 8 (and it still sounds suspiciously like the shell is getting duff > information about the environment, though that's certainly not the only > possibility). I've tried adding multibyte characters to the command line > and complicating the RPROMPT and even adding multibyte characters to that, > but it still works OK. > > Are there any particular things on the command line, forms of RPROMPT etc. > etc. that show this up? (We really need something that narrows this down.) > I can reproduce it on Mandriva cooker with locale en_US.UTF-8 or ru_RU.UTF-8. It does not matter whether there are UTF-8 characters on the screen (at least, I am not sure whether there are - en_US.UTF-8 should not emit any non-ASCII strings as far as I can tell). I will try to find time on weekend to check more closely.
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