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I have the same set-up as you (except I don't know what "resume=/dev/cryptvg/swap" is supposed to do, even though I have luks+lvm going...)
I use urxvt, and have the same result with the error output. It occurred to me that this looks like a "command interpreter" issue, so I installed dash from slackbuilds, and "switching" to dash from within urxvt I get:
Code:
$ ä
dash: ä: not found
$
so I'm thinking it's a bash limitation. I take it dash is supposed to be fully POSIX, whereas bash may not be?
Here's another fun one:
Code:
$ イロハニホヘト
dash: イロハニホヘト: not found
$
Maybe the POSIX thing is the explanation, but I'm now at the limit of my pay scale.
I just built and installed an rxvt-unicode (AKA urxvt) package from slackbuilds.org and when using the basic method for applying ISO 14755 standard (press and hold both Ctrl and Shfi then enter the four hex digits of UTF-8 code), characters are properly displayed.
FYI, to find all hex digits UTF-8 codes of letters with a diaeresis (official name of the umlaute) I type:
Code:
zgrep DIAERESIS /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz
EDIT Reading STDOUBT's answer I see now that I didn't understand your question. So yes, this could be a limitation of bash.
Oh, and bash can be put in POSIX mode if invoked with the --posix option. According to 'man bash': "Bash can be configured to be POSIX-conformant by default".
But that doesn't change the output in this case.
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 06-22-2013 at 04:40 PM.
Reason: EDIT added
I know about these. This is a bug in Bash, because of which the UTF-8 strings are handled incorrectly. I is not a programmer and don't know how to fix it nicely.
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