CLI gibberish -- prompt and input appear to be some sort of unicode characters

[FixedWing]

@v345

Packages (17) … libedit-20160618_3.1-1 …

Nice work!

My bet is libedit:

2016-06-18 Jess Thrysoee

• version-info: 0:54:0

• all: sync with upstream source

* deprecate option --enable-widec.
Upstream now always build with unicode (wide-char/UTF-8) support.

Editline Library (libedit) - Port of NetBSD Command Line Editor Library

Stephen