From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020804 Description of problem: [ This is another one from the set of locale-problems with non-ASCII characters.] With "bash" on virtual console (CTRL+)ALT+F1, for each non-ASCII special character (e.g. Euro-symbol, cent-symbol, characters from west european languages) I type in, backspace can delete _two_ characters. $ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" 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" $ export | grep LAN declare -x LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bash-2.05b-3, glibc-2.2.90-23 (rest from upgraded Limbo beta2) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. (CTRL)+ALT+F1 2. log in 3. AltGr+E AltGr+E AltGr+E AltGr+E AltGr+E AltGr+E AltGr+E [or enter other non-ASCII characters here] 4. Backspace Backspace Backspace Backspace Backspace Backspace Actual Results: Backspace key deletes two characters each time it is pressed and even deletes past the shell-prompt. Expected Results: Backspace key should delete only one character each time it is pressed.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74925 ***