Read Prompt Width Miscalculation (Non-Printing Characters)

[The Administrator]

Hello and happy holiday hacking.  Does the read builtin stand to benefit  
from \[ and \] denotation ala $PS1 and friends?  Here is a quick example:

> read -erp "$( tput setaf 2 )NEW:$( tput sgr0 ) "

Fill the line with “0123456789ABCDEFGH” and try deleting some of it.  I have  
attached a small demonstration.

Thank you.

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