lib/43998: libedit(?) broken for UTF-8 locales

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>Number:         43998
>Category:       lib
>Synopsis:       libedit(?) broken for UTF-8 locales
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    lib-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 24 17:55:00 +0000 2010
>Originator:     tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost
>Release:        NetBSD 5.99.39 2010-10-24 sources
>Organization:
Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/
>Environment:
System: NetBSD lyssa.zhadum.org.uk 5.99.39 NetBSD 5.99.39 (LYSSA) #0: Sun Oct 
24 18:32:44 BST 2010 tron%lyssa.zhadum.org.uk@localhost:/src/sys/compile/LYSSA 
i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
Command history in both "/bin/sh" and "/usr/bin/ftp" is broken for me
with the UTF-8 locale I use by default.

>How-To-Repeat:
env LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/ftp
help
<cursor up>

>Fix:
Not known.