[Bug 208121] ftp/filezilla: After update to 3.16.0 I can't connect to any FTP server

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--- Comment #14 from matthew at reztek.cz ---
I'm glad someone found a solution; I was blissfully unaware anyone else was
working toward a solution until the fix was committed.

I noticed this problem the day after the 3.16.0 update PR was submitted and so
held off on the 3.16.1 update in hopes of combining the fix with it even though
the fix would have to be in libfilezilla (more PRs = more waiting). The cause
of the problem was immediately obvious, but the correct (non-hack) solution was
not. I had looked at the iconv section (6.23) of Porter's Handbook numerous
times, but that makes no mention of wchar_t whatsoever. It is only in the list
of USES flags and parameters (15.35) that the existence and purpose is
mentioned in passing.

Sorry to everyone that had to wait due to poor documentation and a bug tracking
system that can't send a readable notification. At this point I'm not going to
bother with a 3.16.1 update (only a change of the version number in Makefile
and refresh the distinfo), because 3.17.0 is close (RC1 was a week ago) and
chances are the latter will be released before the former would get committed.

Thanks Mikael!

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