UTF8 support not enabled in libedit?

[linas]

Kudos for supporting the latest version of libedit in the new releases ... but ... one of the great benefits of the latest version is that it supports unicode -- UTF8 strings. From what I can tell, the current ubuntu builds do not enable this. So, for example:

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/154417352/buildlog_ubuntu-trusty-amd64.libedit_3.1-20130712-2_UPLOADING.txt.gz

reports:

checking if you want wide-character code... no

To get UTF8 support one normally needs to ./configure --enable-widec which then defines WIDECHAR in config.h which causes symbols like history_w history_wend history_winit and el_wget el_wgetc el_wgets to appear in the library.

It would be great if you did this: I'm exhausted in explaining to my users where they can get libedit and how to build it from source :-(

[linas (linasvepstas)]

Patched in Debian, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737786

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libedit - 3.1-20140213-1

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libedit (3.1-20140213-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Upload to unstable

 -- Sylvestre Ledru <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:19:30 +0100