vi (=nvi from base) prob.: a character declared printable a day keeps the cursor away

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Default behaviour, vi testfile:

RRP: \xc2\xa329.99. You Save: \xc2\xa316.40

So I add the following to ~/.exrc

set print="¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬¬®¯°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ"

Let's try again, vi testfile:

RRP: £29.99. You Save: £16.40

Now we're talking...

I can also enter German umlaute in vi just by entering the ä-Key on my keyboard, for instance.

But there's a catch! For each character contained in the 'set print' statement (2nd 'Code:' block above) that I type into vi in INSERT mode the cursor moves one space to the right, away from its usual position. After typing sth. like this:

These are German umlaute:_

I end up with sth. like this:

These are German umlaute: äöü   _

(The underscore '_' indicates the cursor position after typing 'ä', 'ö', and 'ü' respectively.)


I'm not ruling out any misconfiguration or stupid mistake on my side. So my question to the pros here is, can anything be done about this annoying behaviour?