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Posted by Anthony Lockett
Anthony Lockett
24,266 Points

Terminal PS1

Jim Hoskins, how did you get the UTF-8 arrow in the terminal as your PS1. Ive been trying to figure this out and haven't come up with anything

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James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

This requires 2 steps...

1 - Make sure your terminal character encoding is set to UTF-8

  • In Putty it's Configuration -> Window ? Translation ? UTF-8
  • In Terminal app on OS X it's Preferences ? Advanced ? Character Encoding ? Unicode (UTF-8)

source: setting the character encoding in on a terminal

2 - Find the Octal Esapce Sequence for character you want use

I checked out graphemica and found a nifty arrow ? The octal escape sequence to use in your *PS1 variable is \342\206\222.