diff --git a/top/top.c b/top/top.c
index 394b8a94..c7e8e52d 100644
--- a/top/top.c
+++ b/top/top.c
@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ static void show_special (int interact, const char *glob) {
             case 5: case 6: case 7: case 8:
                *sub_end = '\0';
                snprintf(tmp, sizeof(tmp), "%s%.*s%s"
-                  , Curwin->captab[ch], room, sub_beg, Caps_off);
+                  , Curwin->captab[ch], utf8_embody(sub_beg, room), sub_beg, Caps_off);
                rp = scat(rp, tmp);
                room -= (sub_end - sub_beg);
                room += utf8_delta(sub_beg);
@@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ static void show_special (int interact, const char *glob) {
       it probably means caller wants to retain cursor position on this final
       line.  That, in turn, means we're interactive and so we'll just do our
       'fit-to-screen' thingy while also leaving room for the cursor... */
-   if (*glob) PUTT("%.*s", Screen_cols -1, glob);
+   if (*glob) PUTT("%.*s", utf8_embody(glob, Screen_cols - 1), glob);
 } // end: show_special
 
 
diff --git a/top/top.h b/top/top.h
index fb8fb350..63380927 100644
--- a/top/top.h
+++ b/top/top.h
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@
         /* For the impetus and NUMA/Node prototype design, thanks to:
               Lance Shelton <LShelton@fusionio.com> - April, 2013 */
 
+        /* For prompting & helping with top's utf-8 support, thanks to:
+              Göran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.se> - September, 2017 */
+
    // pretend as if #define _GNU_SOURCE
 char *strcasestr(const char *haystack, const char *needle);
 
diff --git a/top/top_nls.c b/top/top_nls.c
index 05f8c206..d72d875d 100644
--- a/top/top_nls.c
+++ b/top/top_nls.c
@@ -520,6 +520,17 @@ static void build_uniq_nlstab (void) {
    .  If you would like additional information regarding these strings,
    .  please see the prologue to the show_special function in the top.c
    .  source file.
+   .
+   .  Caution:
+   .    The next three items represent pages for interacting with a user.
+   .    In all cases, the last lines of text must be treated with care.
+   .
+   .    They must not end with a newline character so that at runtime the
+   .    cursor will remain on that final text line.
+   .
+   .    Also, the special sequences (tilde+number) must not appear on the
+   .    last line (the one without the newline). So please avoid any line
+   .    wraps that could place them there.
    . */
 
    Uniq_nlstab[KEYS_helpbas_fmt] = _(""