$ locale LANG=C.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="C.UTF-8" LC_TIME="C.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="C.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="C.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="C.UTF-8" LC_NAME="C.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="C.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="C.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="C.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C.UTF-8" LC_ALL=
But it's the same behavior even if bash is launched with: $ LANG=ar_EG.UTF-8 bash On Wednesday, February 21st, 2024 at 16:23, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 2/19/24 9:26 PM, Avid Seeker wrote: > > > When pressing backspace on Arabic ligatures (including characters with > > diacritics), they are removed as if they are one character. > > > What's your locale? (Not that I guarantee having it installed.) > > -- > `The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer` Ars longa, vita > brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/