What happens when you run the script with wide-characters explicitly turned off, i.e. in an xterm launched with xterm -u8 +wc?

No difference whatsoever.

seems to think certain byte sequences are escape sequences meant to control the terminal.

That may be.

The things is, those normally start with ESCape (^[). UTF-8 doesn't produce anything that contains ESC except for ESC itself. Other control character respected by terminals are also found in the ASCII range and thus not produced by UTF-8.

I don't know much about terminals, and less about xterm. I didn't even have xterm installed until this came up.

You mentioned something about an "Xemacs shell". Is that a variable that can be eliminated?

In reply to Re^3: Printing the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet (U05D0) kills script? by ikegami
in thread Printing the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet (U05D0) kills script? by ELISHEVA

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