From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020724 Description of problem: Probably related to bug #70124 or slang. Open a new file and type a text which contains several German umlaut characters. With each umlaut the cursor advances a second column. Upper-case umlaut characters yield an even more weird behaviour and cause lines to disappear or the cursor to be moved to line 1 column 1. Whether in virtual console or in an xterm, doesn't make a difference. Different language setting didn't change a thing either. $ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="de_DE.UTF-8@euro" SUPPORTED="en_GB.UTF-8:en_GB:en:en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en:de_DE.UTF-8:de_DE:de" SYSFONT="LatArCyrHeb-16" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.99.15-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Since bugzilla is plain ASCII, it wouldn't accept 8-bit ISO Latin-1 (or ISO Latin-0) characters. Proceed as described above.
Reproducible with (null).
No progress in Fedora Core. $ rpm -q jed slang jed-0.99.16-5 slang-1.4.9-4 Does Jed still have followers at Red Hat? If not, why not drop it from Core?
*** Bug 70124 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
jed doesn't really support UTF-8 cleanly, and won't until slang-2.0.