Some time between 2.6-beta14 and 2.6-beta19 completion changed wrt 8bit characters. First example is with 3.0.1-test. % ls ha/ he/ hi/ ho/ hr/ hu/ hy/ hä/ hö/ hü/ % ls h ha/ he/ hi/ ho/ hr/ hu/ hy/ h\M-d/ h\M-v/ h\M-|/ % /usr/local/bin/zsh-2.6-beta14 % ls h ha/ he/ hi/ ho/ hr/ hu/ hy/ hä/ hö/ hü/ Is this intentional? Can I influence the behaviour? I prefer the beta14 way to display the real 8-bit character (and the spacing looks also better, imho). I discovered that in history something similar happended between beta10 and beta13, although beta10 looks buggy in another way: % echo hü hü % history -1 501 echo h\M-| 502 history -1 % exec /usr/local/bin/zsh-2.6-beta10 % echo hü hü % history -1 501 echo h^ü 502 history -1 Let me know, if you need additional info. Thanks for the zsh! andreas