Created attachment 233864 [details] [review]
Replace fancy multibyte with simple ascii characters in configure script

When compiling in dumb locales, all compilation output ceases after:

 ⢠Compiler options:
        Cogl debug: no
        Enable deprecated symbols: yes
        Compiler flags: -O2 -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R7/include -I/usr/X11R7/include/freetype2  -DG_DISABLE_CHECKS -DG_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS  
        Linker flags: -L/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/lib -Wl,-R/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R7/lib -Wl,-R/usr/X11R7/lib 

 ⢠Extra:
        Build API reference: no
        Build introspection data: auto


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Another experiment is to ssh from a server build box with dumb locale to an ubuntu running desktop, and "less configure.ac":

# Miscellaneous
echo ""
echo " ⢠Extra:"
echo "        Build API reference: ${enable_gtk_doc}"
echo "        Build introspection data: ${enable_introspection}"
echo "        Enable internationalization: ${USE_NLS}"

echo ""

# General warning about experimental features
if test "x$EXPERIMENTAL_CONFIG" = "xyes"; then
echo ""
(END) 

i.e., less also thinks that this is the end of the file.

The trivial attached patch replaces the multibyte characters.