Dear Maintainer(s), I ruefully withdraw my bug report, having realised that it seems to be a (U)Xterm problem and seems to be for now being solved by setting a proper locale.
Brgds, e. -- // enno....@gmx.net /\\\ Mag. Enno Deimel .\ o \\ \ _ \ Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. \\\ \_/ gpg-fp: eefe b049 6fe6 fc0b 0ec4 f39e af6a c178 eb98 909a