Stray output in shell buffer due to background process' death

Within a *shell* buffer, if a background process exits, it seems to cause a stray character to be inserted the buffer $ /bin/ls -l .profile -rw-r--r-- 1 rick rick 5893 Jun 17 14:21 .profile $ xemacs -q & [1] 384 $ /bin/ls -l .profile -rw-r--r-- 1 rick rick 5893 Jun 17 14:21 .profile $ /bin/ls -l .profile bash: ÿ/bin/ls: No such file or directory [1]+ Done xemacs -q $ In between the third and fourth command I typed C-x C-c at the backgrounded xemacs. This is in 21.1.12, but I see it various other versions as well, although possibly only on Linux and not Solaris. Rick