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

[Lars-Johan Liman <liman%cafax.se@localhost>]

Greetings, Robert!

Long time no see!

Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> 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