Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmo...@in-nomine.org> added the comment:

Stefan, I was emailing with Rong-En Fan, a FreeBSD committer, about this issue 
and he asked:

"Basically, this is caused by

  a) our readline.so is linked against ncurses.so (via -ltermcap which is the 
same lib)
  b) wide-character enabled ncurses, ncursesw.so, is also loaded in the same 
process

To solve that, we need to have a separate termcap.so, do I understand the issue 
correctly?"

He also mentioned that "[a]nother more aggressive way is to make only ncursesw 
installed into the system which requires a recompilation of all ports that use 
ncurses (ncurses and ncursesw are source compatible, but in most cases they are 
binary compatible as long as application don't assume size of ncurses 
structures)."

Which I fully support, it's something that I did on DragonFly BSD a long time 
ago already (for all I can remember).

Your opinion?

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