From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0) Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Type some double width characters, some japanese kanas for example, in bash. 2.Hit backspace Actual Results: The cursor is in the middle of the last character after having erased the right half of it. Expected Results: The cursor should be right after the end of the previous character. Additional info: I'm very gratefull for #68313 to be fixed. It makes life a lot easier. Fixing the display handling is the next logical step to make UTF-8 a viable option. Note that the problem exists as well in EUC-JP. Except that probably users don't mind it too much since they need anyway to hit backspace twice to clear the character from the buffer as well. If you decide to use some fix like #68313 for other encodings, fixing this will be required if you don't want to upset users of east asian scripts. Next is combining characters like ab (the arrow should be over the a). But that's altogether another problem. I'm just mentioning it so that you're aware of it if you decide to fix this one.
Latest readline package (4.3-1) has the fix (acording to the changelog, at it's actually the same fix i had already included in readline-4.2a-7). Read ya, Phil