Re: pkg/59941: Pkg "static-tcsh" does not support UTF-8 input.

The following reply was made to PR pkg/59941; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Lars-Johan Liman <[email protected]>
To: "Robert Elz via gnats" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected],  [email protected]
Subject: Re: pkg/59941: Pkg "static-tcsh" does not support UTF-8 input.
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:46:28 +0100

 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