On 12/04/17 20:09, Magnus Therning wrote: > > Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On 12/04/17 19:33, Magnus Therning wrote: >>> I'm just curious what the reason is. >> >> Because absolutely everything should link to the wide character version. > > Wouldn't a symbolic link have the same result? > Then you get some software thinking its linked to libncurses.so and some thinking its linked to libncursesw.so. Because they are the same thing, conflict occur and shit hits the fan. A