Willy Tarreau wrote:
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> In my opinion, the problem is that when I press "é", the system sends
> two chars to the bash, which itself sends two chars to the terminal,
> which only displays one and moves the cursor one step ahead. Then,
> pressing backspace once sends one backspace all along, resulting in
> the terminal blanking one displayed char, but the shell not being
> aware that only half of it was removed. But if you look at how
> control chars are handled, if you display ^H then press backspace,
> you remove all of it. It's the terminal which adjusts the position
> depending on the character length.

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 (i.e., inform the userspace that you are using UTF-8), 
unset LC_CTYPE and unset LC_ALL (so that they don't override $LANG), and problem 
solved.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov
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