This issue has nothing to do with Bash. It is likely an artifact of the Ubuntu terminal driver.
Try e-mailing the Ubuntu developers or Canonical Ltd. for help. They may provide a solution. -- Sent from my iPod > On Feb 24, 2015, at 2:15 PM, Steve Terpe <srte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This seems to be related to other issues involving multibyte chars in the > command prompt but is slightly different: > > It seems that when the start of multibyte (2-byte) character falls on the > last column of $COLUMNS, the line wrapping gets confused and overwrites the > current line rather than wrapping to the next line. > > > Noted on Ubuntu 14 LTS.
