How ironic. I decided to revive my Everything server... and proceded along the same lines to cause the same issues, the same way as 3 years ago.

Differences: 3 years of time, nearly. I'm on FreeBSD now, and not Slackware. Deleting the \302 indeed fixes the test and the install. I have no idea if this is a safe test, fix, or if it's a good idea to use.

I'd love to have some comments or even testing, or have someone tell me this is indeed a bug.