The following reply was made to PR install/36560; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/36560 [ctype problem with sysinst]
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 22:32:37 +0200

 FWIW, sysinst works fine if build standalone (not cruchngend/static) on
 a system with full /usr/share/locale/* and LC_CTYPE set properly.
 
 The install image version also works fine when using a libcurses
 compiled without HAVE_WCHAR. (This includes \r for the progress display)
 
 Martin