According to the ZSH FAQ: "ZLE (the Zsh Line Editor) has no concept of character encodings, and is confused by multi-octet encodings."
So this appears to be a known problem with the original authors. ** Summary changed: - Euro character does not display correctly in Gnome terminal + UTF-8 characters do not display correctly in the interactive line editor ** Changed in: zsh (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged => Wishlist Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- UTF-8 characters do not display correctly in the interactive line editor https://launchpad.net/bugs/62294 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs