[CentOS] Gnome-terminal's backslashes look like Ws with a horizontal line through -- how to get a backslash?

Fri May 9 21:40:11 UTC 2008
MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com>

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:42 PM, William L. Maltby
<CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:16 -0400, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
<snip>
>>
>> To see what I mean, use gnome-terminal with
>>
>>   echo '\'
>>
>> in bash, ksh, etc.
>
<snip>
> $ echo \\
> \
> $

Hmm, well, I tried what you said:

$ echo '\'
\
$

Nothing strange there.

mhr