Hello,
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 11:43:22AM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> At Mon, 9 Mar 2020 15:52:06 +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote:
> Subject: Re: tcsh and accented characters (strange problem)
> >
> > If I'm not mistaken, the internationalization code (citrus) is only
> > available via dynamic shared objects loading. If you compile all
> > statically, you don't have the internationalization (iconv and the
> > rest).
>
> Note the patches in PR#18151 by Anders Hjalmarsson solved this problem
> for static-linked binaries way back in 2002 (by allowing a set number of
> locales to be supported at compile time).
>
> I've been keeping those patches up-to-date in my own tree since about
> 2008 (though I'm still back on ~8.99) and they work well!
>
> Note this task is also mentioned in:
>
> https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/static-locale/
>
> But unfortunately there's no mention in that project item about PR#18151
> and it's still listed as a 1-month task -- it's actually now only a few
> hours work.
Thank you for the tip! It is worth mentionning!
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