How does the name of a Parallels VM translate to the default name in Terminal.app prompt? I Parallels Desktop version 12 I have a virtual machine named Cinquième. Note the accent on the e. That VM is running macOS Sierra. In that VM, when I open the Terminal.app, the prompt shows:


  cinquiÃ¨me:~ basilbourque$


Questions:

• Where exactly does bash in Terminal.app pick up the name of the VM?  

• Obviously there is some kind of character encoding problem where Cinquième is being mis-interpreted as cinquiÃ¨me. I would guess the original name is in UTF-8 and is being misinterpreted as ASCII. Any idea where along the chain of Parallels > macOS > Terminal.app > bash that misinterpretation might be happening?
indeed it may have to do with the accent, try it without the accent.
my VM is called "PD XP MBP-Lex.pvm" in the mac and in Terminal and not changed.
Do you have the standard language keyboard?
If not maybe opening the keyboard from the menubar and select the US-International-PC keyboard and use the displayed keyboard layout to make the accent-grave.
Lex