My bash shell suddenly has "X-ray vision"

[SJ Wright]

Or is it just the difference in encodings?

In scripts and config/convenience files like .bashrc or .bash_aliases, 
it can see *through* "crunches" (#), which are supposed to make a line 
of text invisible to a shell <or am I wrong on that?>

Could it be because I added a LANG variable and have been turning out 
not-quite-UTF-8 stuff from my one or two text editors? The only guess I 
can make with my limited knowledge is that, once UTF8 is set or enabled, 
ISO-8859-1 "crunches," for all practical purposes, are meaningless to 
the shell.  or am I wrong on that as well?

A little help, please. This isn't making a whole lot of sense. What good 
are rules for comments if, when a new text encoding or environment 
variable is applied/undertaken/invoked, they become null and void? 
(Might as well go back to REM: from CLI BASIC.)

Steve W


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