I just finished solving my babl problems, but more stuff shows up in
libpcre. First, here are my USE flags. I don't see "utf8" anywhere.

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo USE="bzip2 cxx jit readline (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32 -static-libs" 0 KiB

Can someone give me their output from "emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre"

mc (Midnight Commander) spews out a lot of...

(mc:5796): GLib-CRITICAL **: 15:19:15.617: PCRE library is compiled without UTF8 support

Application windows have every second character missing in the window
title; e.g. "xterm" shows as "xem". I have a spreasheet that tracks my
Presto card usage. The title has gone from "presto.gnumeric-Gnumeric" to "pet.nmrc-Guei'. Various PCRE-based searches fail in vaious apps. HELP!

BTW, here's what I get when opening a complex spreadsheet in
gnumeric...

** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^((January)|(February)|(March)|(April)|(May)|(June)|(July)|(August)|(September)|(October)|(November)|(December)|(Jan)|(Feb)|(Mar)|(Apr)|(May)|(Jun)|(Jul)|(Aug)|(Sep)|(Oct)|(Nov)|(Dec))(-|
/|\s)(\d+)((,?\s+|-|/)(\d+))?\b": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d+)(-|/|\.?\s*)((January)|(February)|(March)|(April)|(May)|(June)|(July)|(August)|(September)|(October)|(November)|(December)|(Jan)|(Feb)|(Mar)|(Apr)|(May)|(Jun)|(Jul)|(Aug)|(Sep)|(
Oct)|(Nov)|(Dec))((,?\s*|-|/)(\d+))?\b": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d\d\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)(:\d\d\d\d\d\d(\.\d*)?)?\s*$": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d\d\d\d)(-?)(\d\d)\2(\d\d)T\d+(:?)\d+(\5\d+(\.\d*)?)?(Z)\s*$": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d\d\d\d)[-/.](\d+)[-/.](\d+)\b": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d\d\d\d)[-/.]((Jan)|(Feb)|(Mar)|(Apr)|(May)|(Jun)|(Jul)|(Aug)|(Sep)|(Oct)|(Nov)|(Dec))[-/.](\d+)\b": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d+)[-/.](\d+)[-/.](\d+)\b": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d+)([-/.])(\d+)\b": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(((\d+):)?(\d+):)?(\d+\.\d*)\s*$": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d+):(\d+)(:(\d+))?\s*$": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)?(\.\d*)?\s*$": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d+)(:(\d+)(:(\d+(\.\d*)?))?)?\s*((am)|(pm))\s*$": Invalid pattern.


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On Thu, 2022-12-15 at 15:52 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:

  Can someone give me their output from "emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre"

I don't have advice for your specific issue, but, as requested:

[ebuild R ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo USE="bzip2 cxx jit -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32 readline (split-usr) -static-libs (unicode)
zlib" ABI_X86="-32 (64) (-x32)" 0 KiB

equery depends libpcre shows:

app-admin/syslog-ng-3.38.1 (>=dev-libs/libpcre-6.1)
dev-libs/rasqal-0.9.33 (pcre ? dev-libs/libpcre)
media-libs/libpulse-16.1-r1 (elibc_mingw ? dev-libs/libpcre:3) media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon-16.1-r3 (elibc_mingw ? dev-
libs/libpcre:3)
net-analyzer/nmap-7.93 (dev-libs/libpcre)
sys-apps/grep-3.7 (pcre ? >=dev-libs/libpcre-7.8-r1)
(pcre ? >=dev-libs/libpcre-7.8-r1[static-libs(+)]) xfce-base/thunar-4.16.11 (pcre ? >=dev-libs/libpcre-6)

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On 12/15/22 21:52, Walter Dnes wrote:

    I just finished solving my babl problems, but more stuff shows up in
libpcre.  First, here are my USE flags.  I don't see "utf8" anywhere.

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo USE="bzip2 cxx

jit readline (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32
-static-libs" 0 KiB

    Can someone give me their output from "emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre"

mc (Midnight Commander) spews out a lot of...

(mc:5796): GLib-CRITICAL **: 15:19:15.617: PCRE library is compiled

without UTF8 support

    Application windows have every second character missing in the window
title; e.g. "xterm" shows as "xem".  I have a spreasheet that tracks my Presto card usage.  The title has gone from "presto.gnumeric-Gnumeric" to "pet.nmrc-Guei'.  Various PCRE-based searches fail in vaious apps.  HELP!

# emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo  USE="bzip2 cxx jit readline (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32
-static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 1,542 KiB

# cat /etc/locale.gen
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
it_IT ISO-8859-1
it_IT.UTF-8 UTF-8

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On 2022.12.15 15:52, Walter Dnes wrote:

I just finished solving my babl problems, but more stuff shows up in libpcre. First, here are my USE flags. I don't see "utf8" anywhere.

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo USE="bzip2 cxx
jit readline (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32 -static-libs" 0 KiB

Can someone give me their output from "emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre"

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo USE="bzip2 cxx jit readline (split-usr) static-libs (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16
-pcre32" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 0 KiB

and for mc:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] app-misc/mc-4.8.28-r2::gentoo USE="X edit gpm slang
spell unicode -nls -sftp -test" 0 KiB

mc (Midnight Commander) spews out a lot of...

mc gives me no complaints.

(mc:5796): GLib-CRITICAL **: 15:19:15.617: PCRE library is compiled
without UTF8 support

Application windows have every second character missing in the
window
title; e.g. "xterm" shows as "xem". I have a spreasheet that tracks
my
Presto card usage. The title has gone from
"presto.gnumeric-Gnumeric" to
"pet.nmrc-Guei'. Various PCRE-based searches fail in vaious apps.
HELP!

BTW, here's what I get when opening a complex spreadsheet in
gnumeric...

** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^((January)|(February)|(March)|(April)|(May)|(June)|(July)|(August)|(September)|(October)|(November)|(December)|(Jan)|(Feb)|(Mar)|(Apr)|(May)|(Jun)|(Jul)|(Aug)|(Sep)|(Oct)|(Nov)|(Dec))(-|/|\s)(\d+)((,?\s+|-|/)(\d+))?\b":
Invalid pattern.

** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d+)(-|/|\.?\s*)((January)|(February)|(March)|(April)|(May)|(June)|(July)|(August)|(September)|(October)|(November)|(December)|(Jan)|(Feb)|(Mar)|(Apr)|(May)|(Jun)|(Jul)|(Aug)|(Sep)|(Oct)|(Nov)|(Dec))((,?\s*|-|/)(\d+))?\b":
Invalid pattern.

** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d\d\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)(:\d\d\d\d\d\d(\.\d*)?)?\s*$": Invalid
pattern.

** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d\d\d\d)(-?)(\d\d)\2(\d\d)T\d+(:?)\d+(\5\d+(\.\d*)?)?(Z)\s*$":
Invalid pattern.

** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d\d\d\d)[-/.](\d+)[-/.](\d+)\b": Invalid pattern.

** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d\d\d\d)[-/.]((Jan)|(Feb)|(Mar)|(Apr)|(May)|(Jun)|(Jul)|(Aug)|(Sep)|(Oct)|(Nov)|(Dec))[-/.](\d+)\b":
Invalid pattern.

** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d+)[-/.](\d+)[-/.](\d+)\b": Invalid pattern.

** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d+)([-/.])(\d+)\b": Invalid pattern.

** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(((\d+):)?(\d+):)?(\d+\.\d*)\s*$": Invalid pattern.

** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d+):(\d+)(:(\d+))?\s*$": Invalid pattern.

** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)?(\.\d*)?\s*$": Invalid pattern.

** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx "^(\d+)(:(\d+)(:(\d+(\.\d*)?))?)?\s*((am)|(pm))\s*$": Invalid pattern.

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Not sure what your problem is but it looks like Glib is complaining, not
mc. Having unicode in your flags would seem to infer UTF-8 support but
I'm no expert.

There's an assumption that you've already run an emerge --sync, emerge
--update @world and a depclean and that you don't have any unusual
entries in package.mask, package.accept_keywords, or friends. Also that
you don't have any overlays that could be muddying the waters.

Then I'd try the following and check your pcre and glib libraries are consistent.

# ldd /usr/bin/mc|egrep "glib|pcre"
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f6672c58000)
        libpcre2-8.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libpcre2-8.so.0 (0x00007f66728c7000)

# ls -l /usr/lib64/{libpcre2-8*,libglib-2*}
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 Dec 14 13:49 /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so -> libglib-2.0.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      23 Dec 14 13:49 /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0

libglib-2.0.so.0.7400.3

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1291352 Dec 14 13:50
/usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.7400.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      20 Dec 13 16:31 /usr/lib64/libpcre2-8.so -> libpcre2-8.so.0.11.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      20 Dec 13 16:31 /usr/lib64/libpcre2-8.so.0

libpcre2-8.so.0.11.2

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  641544 Dec 13 16:31 /usr/lib64/libpcre2-8.so.0.11.2

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On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 03:52:46PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:

I just finished solving my babl problems, but more stuff shows up in libpcre. First, here are my USE flags. I don't see "utf8" anywhere.

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo USE="bzip2 cxx jit readline (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32 -static-libs" 0 KiB

Can someone give me their output from "emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre"

mc (Midnight Commander) spews out a lot of...

(mc:5796): GLib-CRITICAL **: 15:19:15.617: PCRE library is compiled without UTF8 support

glib switched to libpcre2 recently, so that's the wrong package.

I don't seem to get these messages with mc unless I disable unicode
(which is normally enabled by default in profiles).

[ebuild R ] dev-libs/libpcre2-10.42:0/3::gentoo USE="jit pcre16 readline (split-usr) unicode zlib -bzip2 -libedit -pcre32 -static-libs -verify-sig" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 0 KiB

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Apologies to those who've already seen this or had their replies
bounce. The mail host I use was down yesterday (the big storm?) so I
haven't seen any responses to this post. Here's a second try...

I just finished solving my babl problems, but more stuff shows up in
libpcre. First, here are my USE flags. I don't see "utf8" anywhere.

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo USE="bzip2 cxx jit readline
+(split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32 -static-libs" 0 KiB

Can someone give me their output from "emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre"

mc (Midnight Commander) spews out a lot of...

(mc:5796): GLib-CRITICAL **: 15:19:15.617: PCRE library is compiled without UTF8
+support

Application windows have every second character missing in the window
title; e.g. "xterm" shows as "xem". I have a spreasheet that tracks my
Presto card usage. The title has gone from "presto.gnumeric-Gnumeric" to "pet.nmrc-Guei'. Various PCRE-based searches fail in vaious apps. HELP!

BTW, here's what I get when opening a complex spreadsheet in
gnumeric...

** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx +"^((January)|(February)|(March)|(April)|(May)|(June)|(July)|(August)|(September
+)|(October)|(November)|(December)|(Jan)|(Feb)|(Mar)|(Apr)|(May)|(Jun)|(Jul)|(Au
+g)|(Sep)|(Oct)|(Nov)|(Dec))(-|/|\s)(\d+)((,?\s+|-|/)(\d+))?\b": Invalid +pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx +"^(\d+)(-|/|\.?\s*)((January)|(February)|(March)|(April)|(May)|(June)|(July)|(A
+ugust)|(September)|(October)|(November)|(December)|(Jan)|(Feb)|(Mar)|(Apr)|(May
+)|(Jun)|(Jul)|(Aug)|(Sep)|(Oct)|(Nov)|(Dec))((,?\s*|-|/)(\d+))?\b": Invalid +pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx +"^(\d\d\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)(:\d\d\d\d\d\d(\.\d*)?)?\s*$": Invalid pattern.

** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx +"^(\d\d\d\d)(-?)(\d\d)\2(\d\d)T\d+(:?)\d+(\5\d+(\.\d*)?)?(Z)\s*$": Invalid +pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx +"^(\d\d\d\d)[-/.](\d+)[-/.](\d+)\b": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx +"^(\d\d\d\d)[-/.]((Jan)|(Feb)|(Mar)|(Apr)|(May)|(Jun)|(Jul)|(Aug)|(Sep)|(Oct)|(
+Nov)|(Dec))[-/.](\d+)\b": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx +"^(\d+)[-/.](\d+)[-/.](\d+)\b": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx +"^(\d+)([-/.])(\d+)\b": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx +"^(((\d+):)?(\d+):)?(\d+\.\d*)\s*$": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx +"^(\d+):(\d+)(:(\d+))?\s*$": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx +"^(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)?(\.\d*)?\s*$": Invalid pattern.


** (gnumeric:6043): WARNING **: 15:48:22.501: Failed to compile rx +"^(\d+)(:(\d+)(:(\d+(\.\d*)?))?)?\s*((am)|(pm))\s*$": Invalid pattern.


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On Fri, 2022-12-16 at 11:53 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:

Apologies to those who've already seen this or had their replies
bounce. The mail host I use was down yesterday (the big storm?) so I
haven't seen any responses to this post.

All the replies are archived here: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/message/ddddaec318b21018da25ba4328de7856

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On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 06:46:30PM +0000, Michael wrote

Have you sorted out your locale to include UTF-8?

Check this page:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/Guide

My /etc/locale.gen has been...

en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
C.UTF8 UTF-8

...for a long time.

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Thanks everybody. I had "-unicode" in my USE flags all these years.
"emerge --changed-use --deep --update @world" has 11 ebuilds scheduled.
and is running OK. Again, I apologize for a possible duplicate post or
bounces as the mail host I use was down yestersday.

A few minutes later... everything rebuilt with "+unicode" in make.conf
I have 'unicode="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf. No improvements in my system.
"xterm" still hows as "xem". How does "emerge -e @world" sound? That's
615 packages.

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On Friday, 16 December 2022 18:42:41 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:

Thanks everybody. I had "-unicode" in my USE flags all these years. "emerge --changed-use --deep --update @world" has 11 ebuilds scheduled.
and is running OK. Again, I apologize for a possible duplicate post or bounces as the mail host I use was down yestersday.

A few minutes later... everything rebuilt with "+unicode" in make.conf
I have 'unicode="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf. No improvements in my system. "xterm" still hows as "xem". How does "emerge -e @world" sound? That's
615 packages.

Have you sorted out your locale to include UTF-8?

Check this page:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/Guide



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On Saturday, December 17, 2022 6:05:08 A.M. AEDT Walter Dnes wrote:

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 06:46:30PM +0000, Michael wrote

Have you sorted out your locale to include UTF-8?

Check this page:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/Guide

My /etc/locale.gen has been...

en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
C.UTF8 UTF-8

...for a long time.

Are you missing a hyphen in "C.UTF8"?

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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 06:46:30PM +0000, Michael wrote</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; &gt; Have you sorted out your locale to include UTF-8?</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; &gt; </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; &gt; Check this page:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; &gt; </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; &gt; https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/Guide</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; My /etc/locale.gen has been...</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; en_US ISO-8859-1</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; C.UTF8 UTF-8</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; ...for a long time.</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Are you missing a hyphen in &quot;C.UTF8&quot;?</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">-- </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; http://andor.dropbear.id.au/</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&nbsp; Asking for technical help in newsgroups?&nbsp; Read this first:</p>
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On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 09:04:35AM +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote

Are you missing a hyphen in "C.UTF8"?

Yes. I fixed that and ran locale-gen then re-booted; no difference.
I'll dig a bit deeper.

--
I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with
frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista,
pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All
those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.

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Dave

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022, 4:01 PM ralfconn <mentadent47@yahoo.com> wrote:

On 12/15/22 21:52, Walter Dnes wrote:

I just finished solving my babl problems, but more stuff shows up in libpcre. First, here are my USE flags. I don't see "utf8" anywhere.

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo USE="bzip2 cxx

jit readline (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32 -static-libs" 0 KiB

Can someone give me their output from "emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre"

mc (Midnight Commander) spews out a lot of...

(mc:5796): GLib-CRITICAL **: 15:19:15.617: PCRE library is compiled

without UTF8 support

Application windows have every second character missing in the window title; e.g. "xterm" shows as "xem". I have a spreasheet that tracks my Presto card usage. The title has gone from "presto.gnumeric-Gnumeric"

to

"pet.nmrc-Guei'. Various PCRE-based searches fail in vaious apps.

HELP!

# emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo USE="bzip2 cxx jit readline (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32
-static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 1,542 KiB

# cat /etc/locale.gen
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
it_IT ISO-8859-1
it_IT.UTF-8 UTF-8

<div dir="auto"><br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Dave</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 15, 2022, 4:01 PM ralfconn &lt;<a href="mailto:mentadent47@yahoo.com">mentadent47@yahoo.com</a>&gt;
wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 12/15/22 21:52, Walter Dnes wrote:<br>
 &gt;    I just finished solving my babl problems, but more stuff shows up in<br>
 &gt; libpcre.  First, here are my USE flags.  I don&#39;t see &quot;utf8&quot; anywhere.<br>
 &gt;<br>
 &gt; Calculating dependencies... done!<br>
 &gt; [ebuild   R    ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo USE=&quot;bzip2 cxx <br>
jit readline (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32 <br> -static-libs&quot; 0 KiB<br>
 &gt;<br>
 &gt;    Can someone give me their output from &quot;emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre&quot;<br>
 &gt;<br>
 &gt; mc (Midnight Commander) spews out a lot of...<br>
 &gt;<br>
 &gt; (mc:5796): GLib-CRITICAL **: 15:19:15.617: PCRE library is compiled <br> without UTF8 support<br>
 &gt;<br>
 &gt;    Application windows have every second character missing in the window<br>
 &gt; title; e.g. &quot;xterm&quot; shows as &quot;xem&quot;.  I have a spreasheet that tracks my<br>
 &gt; Presto card usage.  The title has gone from &quot;presto.gnumeric-Gnumeric&quot; to<br>
 &gt; &quot;pet.nmrc-Guei&#39;.  Various PCRE-based searches fail in vaious apps.  HELP!<br>


# emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre<br>

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:<br>

Calculating dependencies... done!<br>
[ebuild   R    ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo  USE=&quot;bzip2 cxx jit <br>
readline (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32 <br> -static-libs&quot; ABI_X86=&quot;(64) -32 (-x32)&quot; 1,542 KiB<br>

# cat /etc/locale.gen<br>
en_US ISO-8859-1<br>
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8<br>
it_IT ISO-8859-1<br>
it_IT.UTF-8 UTF-8<br>


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Fix this

Dave

On Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 3:00 AM David Rosenbaum <rosenbaumd181@gmail.com>
wrote:

Dave

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022, 4:01 PM ralfconn <mentadent47@yahoo.com> wrote:

On 12/15/22 21:52, Walter Dnes wrote:

I just finished solving my babl problems, but more stuff shows up in >> > libpcre. First, here are my USE flags. I don't see "utf8" anywhere.

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo USE="bzip2 cxx

jit readline (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32
-static-libs" 0 KiB

Can someone give me their output from "emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre" >> >
mc (Midnight Commander) spews out a lot of...

(mc:5796): GLib-CRITICAL **: 15:19:15.617: PCRE library is compiled

without UTF8 support

Application windows have every second character missing in the

window

title; e.g. "xterm" shows as "xem". I have a spreasheet that tracks my >> > Presto card usage. The title has gone from "presto.gnumeric-Gnumeric"

to

"pet.nmrc-Guei'. Various PCRE-based searches fail in vaious apps.

HELP!


# emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo USE="bzip2 cxx jit
readline (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32
-static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 1,542 KiB

# cat /etc/locale.gen
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
it_IT ISO-8859-1
it_IT.UTF-8 UTF-8

<div dir="auto">Fix this<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Dave</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 3:00 AM David Rosenbaum &lt;<a href="mailto:rosenbaumd181@gmail.com">rosenbaumd181@
gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Dave</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="
ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 15, 2022, 4:01 PM ralfconn &lt;<a href="mailto:mentadent47@yahoo.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mentadent47@yahoo.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:
1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 12/15/22 21:52, Walter Dnes wrote:<br>  &gt;    I just finished solving my babl problems, but more stuff shows up in<br>
 &gt; libpcre.  First, here are my USE flags.  I don&#39;t see &quot;utf8&quot; anywhere.<br>
 &gt;<br>
 &gt; Calculating dependencies... done!<br>
 &gt; [ebuild   R    ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo USE=&quot;bzip2 cxx <br>
jit readline (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32 <br> -static-libs&quot; 0 KiB<br>
 &gt;<br>
 &gt;    Can someone give me their output from &quot;emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre&quot;<br>
 &gt;<br>
 &gt; mc (Midnight Commander) spews out a lot of...<br>
 &gt;<br>
 &gt; (mc:5796): GLib-CRITICAL **: 15:19:15.617: PCRE library is compiled <br> without UTF8 support<br>
 &gt;<br>
 &gt;    Application windows have every second character missing in the window<br>
 &gt; title; e.g. &quot;xterm&quot; shows as &quot;xem&quot;.  I have a spreasheet that tracks my<br>
 &gt; Presto card usage.  The title has gone from &quot;presto.gnumeric-Gnumeric&quot; to<br>
 &gt; &quot;pet.nmrc-Guei&#39;.  Various PCRE-based searches fail in vaious apps.  HELP!<br>


# emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre<br>

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:<br>

Calculating dependencies... done!<br>
[ebuild   R    ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo  USE=&quot;bzip2 cxx jit <br>
readline (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32 <br> -static-libs&quot; ABI_X86=&quot;(64) -32 (-x32)&quot; 1,542 KiB<br>

# cat /etc/locale.gen<br>
en_US ISO-8859-1<br>
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8<br>
it_IT ISO-8859-1<br>
it_IT.UTF-8 UTF-8<br>


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I gave up on searching Google, and decided to nuke+repave. I'm sending
from my backup ("successor") machine. The original machine now has basic install plus xorg-server plus icewm plus xterm. The titles on the xterm
window bars are OK, i.e. they are *NOT* missing every second letter. I
still have to install 74 apps from the backup copy I made of "world" and configure them.

I fear that I may have to do the same with the backup machine. I run
the same configs on both machines. I haven't updated the backup machine
for 63 days, according to the warnings. Hopefully correcting make.conf
right now will save me a second reinstall.

--
I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with
frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista,
pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All
those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.

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On Wednesday, December 28, 2022 7:36:38 A.M. AEDT Walter Dnes wrote:

I gave up on searching Google, and decided to nuke+repave. I'm sending from my backup ("successor") machine. The original machine now has basic install plus xorg-server plus icewm plus xterm. The titles on the xterm window bars are OK, i.e. they are *NOT* missing every second letter. I
still have to install 74 apps from the backup copy I made of "world" and configure them.

I fear that I may have to do the same with the backup machine. I run
the same configs on both machines. I haven't updated the backup machine
for 63 days, according to the warnings. Hopefully correcting make.conf
right now will save me a second reinstall.

Did you try the not quite so hard "emerge --emptytree -a world" first?

It just recompiles your whole current system again, to make sure everything is up to date
and has the current set of Use flags. Skips all the initial installation steps, and keeps all
your /etc config customisations.

--
Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/
Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first:
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro


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<body><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">On Wednesday, December 28, 2022 7:36:38 A.M. AEDT Walter Dnes wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; I gave up on searching Google, and decided to nuke+repave.&nbsp; I'm sending</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; from my backup (&quot;successor&quot;) machine.&nbsp; The original machine now has basic</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; install plus xorg-server plus icewm plus xterm.&nbsp; The titles on the xterm</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; window bars are OK, i.e. they are *NOT* missing every second letter.&nbsp; I</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; still have to install 74 apps from the backup copy I made of &quot;world&quot; and</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; configure them.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; I fear that I may have to do the same with the backup machine.&nbsp; I run</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; the same configs on both machines.&nbsp; I haven't updated the backup machine</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; for 63 days, according to the warnings.&nbsp; Hopefully correcting make.conf</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&gt; right now will save me a second reinstall.</p>
<br /><br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Did you try the not quite so hard &quot;emerge --emptytree -a world&quot; first?</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">It just recompiles your whole current system again, to make sure everything is up to date and has the current set of Use flags. Skips all the initial installation steps, and
keeps all your /etc config customisations.</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">-- </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; http://andor.dropbear.id.au/</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&nbsp; Asking for technical help in newsgroups?&nbsp; Read this first:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro</p>
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On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 10:12:51AM +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote

Did you try the not quite so hard "emerge --emptytree -a world" first?

Yes; that was one of my attempts to fix the problem.

--
I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with
frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista,
pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All
those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.

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On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 03:36:38PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote

I fear that I may have to do the same with the backup machine. I run
the same configs on both machines. I haven't updated the backup machine
for 63 days, according to the warnings. Hopefully correcting make.conf
right now will save me a second reinstall.

I corrected make.conf, ran emptytree, and then updated the
backup/successor machine. The warnings were now 66 days since last sync.
The backup runs behind the main desktop, so I seem to have caught the
problem in time on this machine. After the update, X runs OK with
window titles showing every letter, and no warnings about libpcre. All
is good.

The backup machine will be updated once a month "whether it needs it
or not". Generally the same for my main desktop, but... I have Netflix
which requires Google-Chrome, which will beg for updates at random
intervals, so the main machine will have extra updates. Pale Moon is my
"daily driver" web browser. Google-Chrome is for Netflix only.

--
I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with
frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista,
pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All
those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.

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On Saturday, 31 December 2022 06:07:35 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:

The backup machine will be updated once a month "whether it needs it
or not".

:)

--
Regards,
Peter.

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