Backspace issues in terminal

Hi
I seem to reacall someone mentioned this before but I cant seem to find it in the archive.
I have set my locale to sv_SE.UTF-8 and all is well..almost
When in a terminal session and having my terminal also set to UTF-8 when i type an umlaut, for instance ä and do a backspace to delete the letter then the terminal will also delete one character of the prompt.
hence if the prompt is
user@machine /Library/Webserver/cgi-executables $
and i type ä
i.e
user@machine /Library/Webserver/cgi-executables $ä
and then do a backspace to get rid of ä and get the cursor to the beginning of the line I end up with
user@machine /Library/Webserver/cgi-executables
thus the $ in the cursor has been removed..if I had put three umlauts I would have had the characters removed when backspacing.
I'm using bash ofcourse and xterm-color with the following .inputrc
set meta-flag on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on
set completion-ignore-case on
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
Anyone have any ideas?

Sorry, I can't think of what is wrong in your environment. I guess your bash is the same as mine.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 581636 21 Mar 2005 /bin/bash
In Unicode, 'ä' can be represented in two different ways; precomposed and decomposed. In the precomosed form, 'ä' is represented by a single character, while in the decomposed form by 'a' + 'umlaut super-imposed on the preceding character'. If I enter 'ä' from my keyboard by "option+u a" the I get the precomposed character. On the other hand, MacOS X file system uses decomposed form for filenames, so if I get 'ä' as a part of a filename by completion (by hitting TAB), then it is in the decomposed form.
But, in both cases, the backspace key works normally in my environment.
In the case of precomposed char, a single backspace erases the 'ä' and leaves the prompt.
In the case of decomposed char, a single backspace erases only the umlaut, leaving a plain 'a' (if I hit return here, then I get "bash: a: command not found"). If I hit the second backspace, then the 'a' is erased and just the prompt remains.
How do you enter 'ä'? Are you using Swedish keyboard? You can find whether your 'ä' is precomposed or decomposed by
bash% echo ä > foo
bash% od -xc foo
You will get 'c3 a4' for precomposed and '61 cc 88' for decomposed form.
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