[Bug 206903] shells/bash: Patch making iconv disconnected from NLS option

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            Bug ID: 206903
           Summary: shells/bash: Patch making iconv disconnected from NLS
                    option
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: ehaupt at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: yuri at rawbw.com
          Assignee: ehaupt at FreeBSD.org
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(ehaupt at FreeBSD.org)

Created attachment 166528
  --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=166528&action=edit
patch

The attached patch makes USES=iconv permanent, instead of being only for NLS=on
case.

The reason is that NLS is related to message translations to different
languages.
And bash has the general feature that \uNNNN is translated into the unicode
character using iconv. This is unicode support, and should have nothing to do
with translations.

bash also currently has a bug that --disable-nls causes it to fail to find
iconv. I  reported this bug to bash-devel ML. So in the future, when bash will
fix this, this patch will make a difference.

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