Re: bash strangeness with utf-8

[Benno Schulenberg]

Joe Peterson wrote:
> when using LAN=en_US.UTF-8 (anf we've verified same on
> en_GB.UTF-8).

Apart from LANG=en_US.UTF-8, what is the rest of your locale?

> There are two cases I came up with.  If you up-arrow through your
> history, hit right-arrow (i.e. going "past" the end - even though
> the cursor stops at the end), it takes 2 left-arrows to go back a
> character (as if there were an extra character at the end).
>
> Case 2 can usually be invoked by going back a character or two,
> hitting ctrl-k (to chop off the end of the line), and then
> hitting right-arrow repeatedly.  The cursor will oscillate back
> and forth at the end of the line (well, I can almost always get
> this to happen...).

Cannot reproduce either case.  Can you provide examples in the form 
of a typescript (using 'script')?

Benno