On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, pacman@kosh.dhis.org wrote:
The root of the problem is that in non-UTF-8 mode, the \x9f character eats an arbitrarily large sequence of non-control characters that follow it.
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#C1 http://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage/xterm.html (discussion of "-k8" option) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net