I still see the behavior in gp-gmp-git938ea74.exe which is newer (by one commit) than 2d5deffb.

Charles Greathouse
Analyst/Programmer
Case Western Reserve University

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Karim Belabas <Karim.Belabas@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
* Charles Greathouse [2014-10-23 23:33]:
> Package: pari
> Version: git 2c1f4c4
>
> The latest development version has a display bug in the Windows version. In
> various places, including on breakpoints, strange symbols are used in place
> of the prompt. For example, I see the symbols \≈' in place of break> when I
> hit Ctrl+Break:
> http://math.crg4.com/gp-cygwin-bug.png
>
> This behavior is present in gp-gmp-git2c1f4c4.exe but absent in
> gp-gmp-gitdd11540.exe.
>
> Unfortunately, there have been many changes between these versions, even
> though they're separated by a short time:
> http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pari.git;a=commitdiff;h=2c1f4c44f78d5a1efe3185f1fd176416242d6772;hp=dd11540e961686b625fd9638f2adc29030008c5c

This should have been fixed by commit 2d5deffb yesterday evening. Can
you update and retry ?

Thanks,

    K.B.
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