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Diffstat (limited to 'Functions/Prompts/prompt_special_chars')
-rw-r--r-- | Functions/Prompts/prompt_special_chars | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Functions/Prompts/prompt_special_chars b/Functions/Prompts/prompt_special_chars new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8be7dc1cf --- /dev/null +++ b/Functions/Prompts/prompt_special_chars @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# Utility function to set up some special characters +# used by prompts. +# +# These used to be defined to characters found in particular +# character sets (e.g. IBM852) which now aren't widely used. +# We still provide them in that form if the current character +# set isn't UTF-8. We could in principle use iconv if available. + +if [[ ${LC_ALL:-${LC_CTYPE:-$LANG}} = *UTF-8* ]]; then + char_333=$'\xe2\x96\x88' + char_262=$'\xe2\x96\x93' + char_261=$'\xe2\x96\x92' + char_260=$'\xe2\x96\x91' +else + for code in 333 262 261 260; do + char_$code=$(echo -n "\\0$code") + done +fi |