@rdicosmo, thanks for the pointers; those changes look good; I'll test out the trunk version later as there are probably still some lurking portability issues. It should be easy enough to eliminate the current patch when we merge 1.9.0, as it just needs some `configure` support to point the C `aspcud` to the correct Cellar encodings directory.

Would be useful to get this 1.8.0 version into Homebrew before that though...