Re: pkg/59941: Pkg "static-tcsh" does not support UTF-8 input.
Lars-Johan Liman <[email protected]>
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Greetings, Robert! Long time no see! Robert Elz <[email protected]> 2026-01-26 12:50 [+0000]: > I believe that our locale code (in libc) requires dynamic linking > in order to work - with a statically linked binary, dynamic linking > doesn't work, and so locales don't work either. > Whether there are any plans to do anything about that I have no idea, > as best I can tell, no-one is really brave enough to go anywhere near > the locale code. LOL! OK, I see. Thank you! That's a somewhat surprising explanation, but a technically solid one. If that's the case, you may close this case, but I suggest that you might want to add to the pkgsrc DESCRIPTION file that this it doesn't support locales. While you're at it, possibly also remove "available build options: nls, Use native language support." ... which, as I now understand it, doesn't work. (In any case, I just noted that _all_ programs in /bin are dynamically linked these days, so maybe the days of statically linked login shells are over? I just have to grow up, I guess. ;-) ) Cheers, /Liman