On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 02:46:49PM -0500, M Farkas-Dyck wrote:
> At ksh prompt, type a multibyte character, and move or backspace over
> it, for examples:
>       • "é", backspace, enter; "é" is visibly deleted, but ksh says "ksh:
> �: not found"
>       • "é", home; cursor cuts into prompt
> 
> Tested in xterm and st with various multibyte characters, including "éẃγ♯".
> 
> LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8
> 
> OpenBSD 5.5-current (GENERIC.MP) #136: Mon May 19 09:40:42 MDT 2014
>     t...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
> 
> Can anyone reproduce this?

"""
Few utilities in the base system support UTF-8 at this time. Most will use
ASCII in the UTF-8 locale. However, many programs from the ports collection do
support UTF-8. 
"""
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#locales

Try zsh or bash.

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