backspace creates odd multibyte characters

Hi, this is either a bug or a feature causing bugs :)

My problem is that sometimes when I edit a file in vim, and I press
backspace and then enter another character, vim inserts an odd
character in some outlying UTF-8 plane. This is obviously troublesome
as the character often looks almost like the one I just removed, but I
end up with scripts that do not compile.

Is there a way to remove this feature?

It seems to be found in all versions of vim I work with (RHEL4/5,
Ubuntu ++) and it is a major irritant.

Kind regards,
Tarjei

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