You have been subscribed to a public bug: The libedit and libedit-dev packages are missing support for utf8 (and thus, support for most on-English languages). Aparantly, this was a package build bug; the support was always there in the sources, and was just not being built for the package.
The issue appears to be fixed upstream, in Debian, and only needs to be pulled into mint: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756736 Symptoms: nm /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libedit.a |grep el_wgets reveals nothing, similarly, no symbol for history_w history_winit el_wset history_wend and so on, all of which are in the header file /usr/include/editline/readline.h This is in mint 17 qianna There's a parallel,unassigned bug report for ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libedit/+bug/1375921 ** Affects: libedit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: libedit -- libedit is missing utf8 support (neeedd for non-Engliish) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389438 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
