Why does csh (tcsh) crash when I type non-ASCII characters?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

User types non-ASCII characters (e.g. Swedish characters with umlaut: å, ä, ö) on the csh/tcsh command line. The shell segfaults after a short while.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • tcsh-6.20.00-12.el8 or earlier

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