diff --git a/input.c b/input.c
index 1f0c64a..a1a1775 100644
--- a/input.c
+++ b/input.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include "exec.h"
 #include "names.h"
 #include "terminal.h"
+#include "utf8.h"
 #include "wrapper.h"
 
 #if PKCODE
@@ -454,6 +455,26 @@ handle_CSI:
         return CTLX | c;
     }
 
+	if( c <= 0xC1 || c > 0xF4)
+		return c ;
+	else {
+		char utf[ 4] ;
+
+		utf[ 0] = c ;
+		if( (c & 0xE0) == 0xC0)
+			utf[ 1] = get1key() ;
+		else if( (c & 0xF0) == 0xE0) {
+			utf[ 1] = get1key() ;
+			utf[ 2] = get1key() ;
+		} else if( (c & 0xF8) == 0xF0) {
+			utf[ 1] = get1key() ;
+			utf[ 2] = get1key() ;
+			utf[ 3] = get1key() ;
+		}
+
+		utf8_to_unicode( utf, 0, sizeof utf, (unicode_t *) &c) ;
+	}
+	
     /* otherwise, just return it */
     return c;
 }
diff --git a/utf8.c b/utf8.c
index 686e988..1ebec89 100644
--- a/utf8.c
+++ b/utf8.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ unsigned utf8_to_unicode(char *line, unsigned index, unsigned len, unicode_t *re
 	 * 1100000x is start of overlong encoding sequence
 	 * Sequence longer than 4 bytes are invalid
 	 */
-	if( c <= 0xc0 || c > 0xF4 || c == 0xC1)
+	if( c <= 0xC1 || c > 0xF4)
 		return 1;
 
 	/* Ok, it's 11xxxxxx, do a stupid decode */