name : prompt_special_chars # 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. typeset -gA schars if [[ ${LC_ALL:-${LC_CTYPE:-$LANG}} = *(UTF-8|utf8)* ]]; then schars[300]=$'\xe2\x94\x94' schars[304]=$'\xe2\x94\x8c' schars[332]=$'\xe2\x94\x8c' schars[333]=$'\xe2\x96\x88' schars[371]=$'\xc2\xa8' schars[372]=$'\xcb\x99' schars[262]=$'\xe2\x96\x93' schars[261]=$'\xe2\x96\x92' schars[260]=$'\xe2\x96\x91' else local code for code in 300 304 332 333 371 372 262 261 260; do eval "schars[$code]=\$'\\$code'" done fi