[Bug 1745273] Re: Cannot open terminal with long working directory name containing Unicode characters

[Kieran Grant]

Possibly what I encountered and reported to BASH (with my other email address)
Apply this patch https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.4-patches/bash44-019
Or try building from git, bash 4.4.19.
I'll quote report description:
"With certain values for PS1, especially those that wrap onto three or more
lines, readline will miscalculate the number of invisible characters,
leading to crashes and core dumps."

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Title:
  Cannot open terminal with long working directory name containing
  Unicode characters

Status in bash package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  1) The release of Ubuntu you are using: Ubuntu 17.10

  2) The version of the package you are using: gnome-terminal version
  3.24.2-0ubuntu4; bash version 4.4-5ubuntu1

  3) What you expected to happen: When opening a terminal window with a
  long working directory path containing Unicode characters (such as
  “/home/test/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/ä/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789”
  in a 80×24 window), gnome-terminal opens normally.

  4) What happened instead: gnome-terminal closes immediately, both when opened using
  gnome-terminal --working-directory=/home/test/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/ä/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789
  and when changing to this directory using “cd”. There is no output on stderr or anywhere else, the window just closes.

  It seems that gnome-terminal closes because bash crashes with a
  segmentation fault, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
  /gnome-terminal/+bug/1745273/comments/4.

  This makes it impossible to use the shell for many directories with
  long paths. This did NOT happen in Ubuntu 16.04.

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