Singular terminates after input say "x³" instead of "x^3"

[anonymous]

Using Ubuntu 10.04, if you type 'x'+caret+'3' the console writes it as "x³", which Singular does not accept as input.

This would be no problem in of itself, but Singular immediately terminates after the error message.

                     SINGULAR                                 /
 A Computer Algebra System for Polynomial Computations       /   version 3-1-2
                                                           0<
 by: W. Decker, G.-M. Greuel, G. Pfister, H. Schoenemann     \   Oct 2010
FB Mathematik der Universitaet, D-67653 Kaiserslautern        \
> ring r=0,(x1,x2),lp;
> poly p=x1³;
   ? error occurred in or before STDIN line 2: `poly p=x1³;`
   ? expected poly-expression. type 'help poly;'
   ? last reserved name was `poly`
Auf Wiedersehen.

P.S.: please imagine between the two lines several definitions of very complicated polynomials, and many time-consuming calculations (e.g. computing certain groebner bases to solve a sudoku), whose lengthy results need now to be copy-pasted.

[seelisch]

resolved as "wontfix": users have to be careful what keys to use for input; some key may result internally in control sequences that may even cause SINGULAR to terminate (as in the example at hand)