Hello Alejandro,
ed works on both binary and ASCII text, which are all individual bytes.
Since ´ is an UTF-8 character, which comprises of the bytes C2 and B4,
ed thinks it should only delete a single byte which results in only C2.
Your terminal can't tell the meaning of just C2 which results, in
Hello,
I've noticed something unexpected when entering an accent character
alone (´) and then deleting it in ed(1) in xterm(1). Instead of deleting
it, it creates another character which is seen as an inverted
exclamation (?) in the font 'misc-fixed'.
How to reproduce:
$ uname -a
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