Character lost when l/ is sent to terminal eg ls /opt/local/ becomes ls /opt/loca

When using terminal application in OSX 10.13.2 Seeing strange behaviour.

A display character lost when l/ is sent to terminal.

For example when typing

$ ls /opt/local/

becomes

ls /opt/loca

with the insertion point moved on one place but the command line still works.

$ ls /opt/local/

Library bin etc include lib libexec man sbin share src var www

Terminal type is xterm-colour and tty is console.

$ echo $TERM

xterm-color

$ tty

/dev/ttys000

Also occurs when doing [tab] command line expansion.

$ ls /opt/local/[tab]

Library bin etc include lib libexec man sbin share src var www

I think this is a terminal display driver issue as the same strange behaviour occurs inside vim. I use terminal app a lot and have only seen this after updating to High Sierra yesterday.

Anyone else seeing/not seeing this know how to examine further ?