[Box Backup] Re: bbackupquery and german umlauts

[Magnus Homann]

Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Reinhard,
> 
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 
>>> Also, you might like to try installing the "readline" development
>>> libraries package, and configuring with --enable-gnu-readline, to see if
>>> the resulting build works properly for you.
>>
>> Which is intersting for debugging reasons, but the resulting binaries
>> are due to licencing reasons (readline being GPL and boxbackup BSDish)
>> are unredistributable. So that would opt out distros like debian and
>> ubuntu shipping boxbackup in their package repositories.
> 
> I think I remember that Martin discovered that editline is broken for 
> international characters a while back. Of course, editline should be 
> fixed, but I don't know who has time to do it.

Yes, I also reported same error for the (unoffical) Ubuntu build a while 
back. Is the bug in editline?

Magnus
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