Re: bash strangeness with utf-8

[Giraud]

Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Then look at a new typescript, and see if that strange 1034h is 
> still there.  If yes, a simple 'set | grep 1034' might find the 
> variable that contains it.

Nothing found doing this grep...  As for doing a script, the "1034h" is
indeed missing in the plain shell you suggest below, but the problem
remains (see below).

>> How best to debug this?  tcsh and sh do not exhibit the problem,
> 
> Aha.  Then try 'env -i bash --noprofile --norc'.  If that instance 
> of the shell doesn't exhibit the problem, then you know for sure 
> it's something in the environment. 

Initially, after entering this plain shell, the problem does not exist.
 However, a simple "export LANG='en_US.UTF-8'" resumes the problem
faithfully.

> If the problem remains even with an empty environment, try using an 
> empty ~/.inputrc or /etc/inputrc.

These files do not exist on my system, so I tried without one and with
an empty one.  No change (problem still happens).

Is there somewhere in the bash code I can put some debugging statements
(or some way of logging) that you can suggest?  Since I'm running
Gentoo, altering the source to test is fairly simple.

                                        -Joe