terminal: diamonds before/after username [solved]

iggy · 2006-11-29 20:53:16

hey!

i have a little problem with terminals (console is fine!). the best way is to look at the shot:

i'm using terminal (xfce4), but the problem exists also with the gnome-terminal.

here is the relevant line out of my .bashrc:
PS1='[33[1;37m][[33[1;32m[u[33[1;37m]@h W]$ [33[0m]'

i'm using utf-8. i have the same options on my laptop, but there is everything ok!

any ideas?

mfg iggy

cactus · 2006-11-29 20:58:38

did you setup the locale on that box, and do the locale gen?

slackhack · 2006-11-29 21:06:09

that's strange. i get two left parenthesis in place of the diamonds, like this:

[(user(@host] ~]$

it displays correctly in rxvt and aterm, but i can't see the option in terminal that's making it do that. maybe something in the default xterm settings (meaning default X terminal settings, wherever those are)?

iggy · 2006-12-01 01:09:52

set the locales correct!

locale:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

/etc/locale.gen

en_US.UTF-8     UTF-8
en_US   ISO-8859-1

mfg

slackhack · 2006-12-01 01:29:22

my locale is set right, and i also had already done locale-gen. are you saying setting your locale fixed the problem for you?

slackhack · 2006-12-01 15:28:39

hmm, actually, i'm noticing that the last field is blank:

sero@homer:~ $ locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=

originally i only had UTF-8 specified in /etc/locale.gen, because i thought you were only supposed to use one locale. so i uncommented ISO-8859-1 and ran locale-gen again, but i still get the same result. how do i get the LC_ALL field to have a value?

>> /etc/rc.conf:
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"

Romashka · 2006-12-02 18:12:55

slackhack wrote:

hmm, actually, i'm noticing that the last field is blank

This is normal.

slackhack wrote:

how do i get the LC_ALL field to have a value?

Set it in ~/.bash_profile

slackhack · 2006-12-02 19:11:32

okay, thanks.

iggy · 2006-12-02 23:28:13

but how we can eleminate the problem? strange is, that this is also in the gnome-terminal.

mfg iggy

Romashka · 2006-12-02 23:47:49

Compare by yourself:

PS1='[33[1;37m][[33[1;32m[u[33[1;37m]@h W]$ [33[0m]'

correct:

PS1='[e[1;37m][[e[1;32m]u[e[1;37m]@h W]$ [e[0m]'

Note that I replaced 33 with e just for better readability.
Your mistake is in 33[1;32m[ - it should be ]

iggy · 2006-12-03 00:30:58

yeah, that was the error! i love u!

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terminal: diamonds before/after username [solved]

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Re: terminal: diamonds before/after username [solved]

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Re: terminal: diamonds before/after username [solved]

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