Ah! bash was a red herring and entirely my fault. I had this in .inputrc, left over from a previous era:
Meta-#: "\C-v£" This mapped byte 0xA3 to C-v £, which caused great confusion. Removing it fixed both £ and ğ (I think the latter was because I'd got bash's internal state in a muddle). Back to the drawing board regarding login ... -- non-ascii layout/encoding problems at "login" line https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273189 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
