Dear bash maintainers, I haven't received any feedback regarding this problem, but I noticed that there was a typo in the patch I sent you (an unwanted 's' inside 'mbrtowc'). I have checked the following change in the gdb/readline repository, it does not have the typo. 2003-03-03 Joel Brobecker * aclocal.m4: Add check for mbrtowc. * config.h.in: Regenerate. * configure: Regenerate. * rlmbutil.h: Disable multi-byte if mbrtowc is not defined. -- Joel