lib edit --enable-widec option breaks tab-completion

[Mark Brethen]

I contacted the maintainer of editline (libedit) and with his help, was able to  create a patch so that it handles UTF-8 characters. I have also forwarded the patch to the developer.

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> On Oct 26, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>>> On Oct 26, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Mark Brethen wrote:
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>>>> On Oct 26, 2014, at 4:12 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>>>> On Oct 24, 2014, at 6:56 PM, Mark Brethen wrote:
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>>>> I've found that compiling against macports libedit, which is configured for wide-char/UTF-8 (--enable-widec option), breaks tab completion. The program that I'm building is bundled with libedit and compiles it without UTF-8 support. In this case tab completion works. Is it okay to install this linked libedit library as part of the port?
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>>> Sure, whatever works best for that program.
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>>> The obvious concern would be: does that impeded the program's ability to process UTF-8 input?
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>> I think it uses the standard ASCII character set, but I'll check.
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> Well libedit and libreadline are used in the process of acquiring user input. Can you guarantee that the user will only input ASCII characters? What happens if the user inputs other characters?
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