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It turns out that Debian has reverted the commit in Perl that broke the locale in their 5.38 branch, so it did not have the issue. However, the workaround we added to fix the locale apparently makes the version Debian/Ubuntu has crash on perl_destruct. I'm not sure why it makes it crash, but since it doesn't crash on newer Perl versions, I'm assuming that it's another bug with the locale handling in that Perl version. To avoid the crash, make sure to only set the locale if we detect that it has been broken by Perl. We do this by checking if the value returned by wcwidth (160) (the first non-ascii printable character) has changed. If this value is not the same after the call to perl_construct, the locale has been broken. I moved the call to Perl_setlocale to right after perl_construct, as the call to perl_construct is what breaks the locale.
WeeChat
WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a free chat client, fast and light, designed for many operating systems.
It is highly customizable and extensible with scripts.
Homepage: https://weechat.org/
Features
- Modular chat client: WeeChat has a lightweight core and optional plugins. All plugins (including IRC) are independent and can be unloaded.
- Multi-platform: WeeChat runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, GNU/Hurd, Haiku, macOS and Windows (Bash/Ubuntu and Cygwin).
- Multi-protocols: WeeChat is designed to support multiple protocols by plugins, like IRC.
- Standards-compliant: the IRC plugin is compliant with RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812, 2813 and 7194.
- Small, fast, and very light: the core is and should stay as light and fast as possible.
- Customizable and extensible: there are a lot of options to customize WeeChat, and it is extensible with C plugins and scripts (Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, Scheme, JavaScript and PHP).
- Fully documented: there is comprehensive documentation, which is translated into several languages.
- Developed from scratch: WeeChat was built from scratch and is not based on any other client.
- Free software: WeeChat is released under GPLv3.
On WeeChat's website you can find more screenshots.
Installation
WeeChat can be installed using your favorite package manager (recommended) or by compiling it yourself.
For detailed instructions, please check the WeeChat user's guide.
Semantic versioning
WeeChat is following a "practical" semantic versioning, see file CONTRIBUTING.md.
Copyright
Copyright © 2003-2024 Sébastien Helleu
This file is part of WeeChat, the extensible chat client.
WeeChat is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
WeeChat is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with WeeChat. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.