# 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