Re: bash prints numeric values of unicode characters instead of their UTF8 representations

[Yuri]

On 01/31/2016 13:41, Yuri wrote:
I have this line in ~/.bashrc:
PS1=$'\\[\e[0;38;5;202m\\]\u2514\u2023\\[\e[0m\\] ' 

This link 
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/25903/awesome-symbols-and-characters-in-a-bash-prompt 
says: "Since bash 4.2, you can use \u followed by 4 hexadecimal digits 
in a $'…' string".
My bash-4.3.42 misinterprets \u as the user name instead.

So what could be wrong? Is \u supposed to be a user name or a unicode 
codepoint hexadecimal prefix?

Yuri