UTF-8 support for nano-Editor?

General
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In 21 ng the nano editor has no UTF-8 support:

CoreELEC:~ # nano -V
GNU nano, version 7.2
(C) 2023 the Free Software Foundation and various contributors
Compiled options: --disable-libmagic --disable-wrapping --disable-nls --disable-utf8

There was the same problem in LibreElec months ago. Their answer was “we do use wchar ncurses but forgot to enable utf8 support.”. This seems to be fixed now:

LibreELEC:~ # nano -V
GNU nano, version 8.7
(C) 2025 the Free Software Foundation and various contributors
Compiled options: --disable-libmagic --disable-wrapping --disable-nls --enable-utf8

Is this fixed in 22 no? If so - any chance to backport this to stable ng?

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Try and report back?

No.