Running on Mac OSX Snow Leopard, with Erlang R13B02 from Macports, the shell prompt doesn't print well. It appears as:
Eshell V5.7.3
[40,[98,52,51,48,56,100,55,95,106,118,108,105,119,97,110,97,103,95,101,114,108,105,100,101,64,106,118,108,97,112,116,111,112,45,109,98,112,46,108,111,99,97,108],41,[49],62,32].
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