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.