On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, Peter Stephenson wrote:

>> echo eéàe # r prints garbage
>
> Sorry if this gets screwed up, I'm using webmail on the other laptop
> at the moment.

Verified that this solves the problem.

Here's your patch against the git repo.  (Also hoping it solves the 
tabs-vs.-spaces discrepancies probably caused by webmail.)

Is the git repo the official source now?  I thought that was another 
5.0.0 goal/plan.

Best,
Ben

---
  Src/builtin.c |    8 ++++++--
  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Src/builtin.c b/Src/builtin.c
index 3925edd..d8493bb 100644
--- a/Src/builtin.c
+++ b/Src/builtin.c
@@ -1727,8 +1727,12 @@ fclist(FILE *f, Options ops, zlong first, zlong last,
  	    if (f == stdout) {
  		nicezputs(s, f);
  		putc('\n', f);
-	    } else
-		fprintf(f, "%s\n", s);
+	    } else {
+		int len;
+		unmetafy(s, &len);
+		fwrite(s, 1, len, f);
+		putc('\n', f);
+	    }
  	}
  	/* move on to the next history line, or quit the loop */
  	if (first < last) {
-- 
1.7.7