No. xterm properly "back spaces". koi8rxterm also works properly. The problem is related to konsole. NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed" # VERSION="20180205 Linux localhost.localdomain 4.15.0-1-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 31 07:03:28 UTC 2018 (ac01747) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux konsole 17.04.2