This is odd. I have defined the following prompt in `zsh`:

    local user_host=&#39;%{$terminfo[bold]$fg[green]%}%n @ %m%{$reset_color%}&#39;
    local current_dir=&#39;%{$terminfo[bold]$fg[blue]%} %~%{$reset_color%}&#39;
    local git_branch=&#39;$(git_prompt_info)%{$reset_color%}&#39;
    local return_code=&quot;%(?..%{$fg[red]%}%? ↵%{$reset_color%})&quot;

    PROMPT=&quot;╭─${user_host} %D{[%a, %b %d %I:%M:%S]} ${current_dir} ${git_branch}
    ╰─%B$%b &quot;
    RPS1=&quot;${return_code}&quot;

It works great on `gnome-terminal` as well as in an `ansi-term` terminal in Emacs (&lt;kbd&gt;M-x&lt;/kbd&gt; `ansi-term`) - see the example below:

![prompt example gnome-terminal/ansi-term][1]

However, it does not work well under `multi-term` in Emacs as you can see below:

![prompt example multi-term][2]

I thought `multi-term` would be capable of interpreting the same set of escape characters that a terminal like  `gnome-terminal` or `ansi-term` does. Why is it not interpreting the escape characters returned by `git-prompt_info` and others correctly?

I have also tried:

* &lt;kbd&gt;M-x&lt;/kbd&gt; `set-terminal-coding-system` and setting it to `utf-8-unix`
* `TERM=eterm-color` within the multi-term terminal, or before calling Emacs, etc.
* `TERM=` within the multi-term terminal, or before calling Emacs, etc.
* Removing any `export TERM` from my `.zshrc`

# Update (January 29, 2014):

The best solution so far seems to be to do the following:

`TERM=xterm-256color`

but causes another problem that I have reported here: [Passing escape sequences to shells within ansi-term in Emacs][3].

  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/MXj5G.png
  [2]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/PVXke.png
  [3]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/111541/passing-escape-sequences-to-zsh-embedded-shells-within-ansi-term-in-emacs

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