diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b0ee23497..add28c93b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ For full details, see the git log at: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/tree/1.0
 
 Any uppercase BUG_* names are modernish shell bug IDs.
 
+2022-02-12:
+
+- In multibyte locales such as UTF-8, shell input is no longer corrupted when
+  a KEYBD trap is active. However, the KEYBD trap is not yet multibyte ready
+  and is now only triggered for ASCII characters (1-127) in a multibyte locale.
+
 2022-02-11:
 
 - On the interactive shell, tab/esc completion is no longer disabled as a side
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c
index d9933b63b..371f5a9ec 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c
@@ -1122,7 +1122,10 @@ int ed_getchar(register Edit_t *ep,int mode)
 				killpg(getpgrp(),SIGINT);
 				siglongjmp(ep->e_env, UINTR);
 			}
-			if(mode<=0 && sh.st.trap[SH_KEYTRAP])
+			if(mode<=0 && sh.st.trap[SH_KEYTRAP]
+			/* workaround for <https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/307>:
+			 * do not trigger KEYBD for non-ASCII in multibyte locale */
+			&& (CC_NATIVE!=CC_ASCII || !mbwide() || c > -128))
 			{
 				ep->e_keytrap = 1;
 				n=1;
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
index aed2f3a41..2704d4785 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 #define SH_RELEASE_FORK	"93u+m"		/* only change if you develop a new ksh93 fork */
 #define SH_RELEASE_SVER	"1.0.0-beta.2"	/* semantic version number: https://semver.org */
-#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2022-02-11"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
+#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2022-02-12"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
 #define SH_RELEASE_CPYR	"(c) 2020-2022 Contributors to ksh " SH_RELEASE_FORK
 
 /* Scripts sometimes field-split ${.sh.version}, so don't change amount of whitespace. */
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1 b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1
index 841c28a43..61f71c2d1 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1
@@ -9062,6 +9062,10 @@ Thus, a trap on
 .B CHLD
 won't be executed until the foreground job terminates.
 .PP
+In locales that use a multibyte character set such as UTF-8, the
+.B KEYBD
+trap is only triggered for ASCII characters (1-127).
+.PP
 It is a good idea to leave a space after the comma operator in
 arithmetic expressions to prevent the comma from being interpreted
 as the decimal point character in certain locales.