Bug#579729: libedit UTF8 support

[Linas Vepstas]

I maintain the link-grammar natural language parser, and need editline, not
readline, for licensing reasons.  I noticed recently that editline does not
work with cut-n-paste of UTF8 Russian text (link-grammar supports arabic,
persian, german, and now russian)  so getting a usable UTF8-capable
editline would be great.

A utf8-enabled version of libedit seems to be here:
http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/

Bug#579729: libedit UTF8 support

[Linas Vepstas]

Also, this bug is incorrectly marked as wishlist: it should be marked as
Important: UTF8 is broken and things don't work because of this!

Patches that fix this bug have been available for two-and-a-half years now;
it'd be great to get these distributed.