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Re: Phil's prompt is not working when LANG is set to UTF-8

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From: Wael Nasreddine <mla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Phil's prompt is not working when LANG is set to UTF-8
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:10:46 +0100
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This One Time, at Band Camp, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxxxxx> said, On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:48:55PM +0300:
> On Thursday 14 February 2008, Peter Stephenson wrote:

> > Wael Nasreddine wrote:
> > > Peter I couldn't install Fedora because it doesn't work with LVM over
> > > DM-Crypt, have you tried my environment ??

> > No, it seems unlikely I'm going to have time for that sort of
> > time-consuming procedure which is any case speculative.  It seems like
> > the next step is understanding the implications of Andrei's findings
> > since he's already narrowed it down.  I don't currently know anything
> > about the system he's talking about.



> I took liberty to move this to workers.

> In case it rings the bell for anyone. Here are prompt lengths computed by
> zsh for phil's prompt in ru_RU.UTF-8 locale (where there were the same
> results for en_US.UTF-8 as well, so at least proper UTF-8 part is correctly
> computed :) )

> (gdb) p rpromptw
> $1 = 12
> (gdb) p lpromptw
> $2 = 9
> (gdb) p lprompth
> $3 = 2
> (gdb) p rprompth
> $4 = 1

> that's absolutely wrong. The actual prompt lengths are (see screenshot)

> lpromptw = 13
> rptomptw = 16 (it has one space in it)

> this perfectly correspnds to something (zsh?) ignoring invalid characters
> with high bit set. In both left and right prompts there are exactly 4 of
> ACS chars.

> I attach both left and ritgh prompts as well.

> [1m[36m[11m?[1m[34m?[10m([1m[36mbor[1m[33m@[1m[32mcooker[1m[33m:[1m[34m1[1m[34m)[11m?[1m[36m?                                                                                                       [1m[34m?[10m([1m[35m~[1m[34m)[11m?[1m[36m?[10m
> [1m[36m[11m?[1m[34m?[10m([1m[33m22:51[34m:[1m[37m%[1m[34m)[11m?[10m[1m[36m[11m?[10m[0;10m 
>  [1m[36m[11m?[1m[34m?[10m([1m[33m??????,??????14[1m[34m)[11m?[1m[36m?[10m[0;10m

So it does seem a zsh problem after all, file a bug perhaps?

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References:
- Re: Phil's prompt is not working when LANG is set to UTF-8
  - From: Andrey Borzenkov

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