Bug#845144: asterisk console scrambles (or misinterprets) input

[Bernhard Schmidt]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 09:20:29PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

Hi,

> This behaves even worse than I remembered it.
> 
> It seems that there is a random unicode character (different at any
> invocation) or-ed with the characters printed. I connected several times
> and types 'abc', and got:
> 
> pungenday*CLI> \U+89F61\U+89F62\U+89F63
> 
> pungenday*CLI> \U+7C61\U+7C62\U+7C63
> 
> pungenday*CLI> \U+4B61\U+4B62\U+4B63
> 
> Occasiionally when you press Enter it is not intepreted as a newline:
> 
> pungenday*CLI> \U+AFD61\U+AFD62\U+AFD63\U+AFD0A\U+AFD0A\U+AFD0A\U+AFD0A
> 
> Something is terribly wrong.

This looks very similar to
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=844619 in libedit,
downgrading to
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20151204T042531Z/pool/main/libe/libedit/libedit2_3.1-20150325-1%2Bb1_amd64.deb
fixed the issue for me. 

Can you confirm?

Bernhard
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