read + ^V

[Antonio Macchi]

using ^V to pass an ascii character to read, the behavior is incoherent 
beetween simple read, and read -nx

$ read
^V^A
$ hd <(echo -n $REPLY)
00000000  01                                                |.|
00000001

$ read -n1
^V
$ hd <(echo -n $REPLY)
00000000  16                                                |.|
00000001

$ read -n2
^V^A
(30)[armada:xterm0]/home/user1
$ hd <(echo -n $REPLY)
00000000  16 01                                             |..|
00000002


I'm on bash 3.2.39
so forgive me if in your new bash this "problem" does not arise
bye