[Bug 1375921] Re: libedit should be updated to wchar_t capable version from debian 3.1-20140620-2

[linas]

Basically, this means that there's no utf8 support, which means that
almost any non-Eglish language  fails.

Appearently, this was/is a package build bug; the support was always
there in the sources, and was just not being built for the package.

typical symptoms:
nm /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libedit.a |grep el_wgets reveals nothing, 

likewise a grep 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

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Title:
  libedit should be updated to wchar_t capable version from debian
  3.1-20140620-2

Status in “libedit” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Current libedit claims to have wchar_t support in its changelog but
  doesn't, as per this bug on the debian bug tracker:
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756736

  The debian package has been fixed and the package minor version
  updated, it'd be really nice to get this into ubuntu as well.

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