[Bug 1389438] [NEW] libedit is missing utf8 support (neeedd for non-Engliish)

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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
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libedit is missing utf8 support (neeedd for non-Engliish)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389438
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