[Bug 1276836] [NEW] UTF8 support not enabled in libedit?

[linas]

Public bug reported:

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 :-(

** Affects: libedit (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  UTF8 support not enabled in libedit?

Status in “libedit” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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 :-(

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