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Bug#257540: bash: Prompt ignores UTF-8 character width

From Tomohiro KUBOTA@1:229/2 to All on Wed Aug 18 05:40:06 2004

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Hi,

From: Tomohiro KUBOTA <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Bug#257540: bash: Prompt ignores UTF-8 character width
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 14:23:07 +0900 (LDT)

I found a patch for this problem at Slashdot Japan.
http://slashdot.jp/comments.pl?sid=199321&cid=599293
I tested this and found that the above problem is fixed but it still
fails when the prompt itself exceeds 80 columns.

A renewed version of the patch is available:

http://slashdot.jp/comments.pl?sid=199321&cid=601375

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