While testing par for some changes to pledge(), I saw unrelated crashes
in some cases (for example "man ls | par") which I tracked down to the
i18n patch.

I'm wondering if it might be a good idea to move that away to a
flavour. Any thoughts?

Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ports/textproc/Makefile,v
diff -u -p -r1.857 Makefile
--- Makefile	25 Feb 2026 12:04:28 -0000	1.857
+++ Makefile	8 Mar 2026 15:58:21 -0000
@@ -384,6 +384,7 @@
      SUBDIR += palm-bookmarks
      SUBDIR += pandoc
      SUBDIR += par
+     SUBDIR += par,i18n
      SUBDIR += pastel
      SUBDIR += patchutils
      SUBDIR += pdf4tcl
Index: par/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ports/textproc/par/Makefile,v
diff -u -p -r1.27 Makefile
--- par/Makefile	8 Mar 2026 15:44:16 -0000	1.27
+++ par/Makefile	8 Mar 2026 15:58:21 -0000
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ COMMENT=	paragraph reflow for email
 VERSION=	1.52
 DISTNAME=	Par${VERSION:S/.//}
 PKGNAME=	par-${VERSION}
-REVISION=	3
+REVISION=	4
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
 FIX_EXTRACT_PERMISSIONS=Yes
 
@@ -18,8 +18,14 @@ PERMIT_PACKAGE=	Yes
 # uses pledge()
 WANTLIB += c
 
+FLAVORS =	i18n
+FLAVOR ?=
+
+.if ${FLAVOR:Mi18n}
 PATCHFILES=	par_1.52-i18n.3.diff.gz
 PATCH_DIST_STRIP=	-p1
+.endif
+SUPDISTFILES=	par_1.52-i18n.3.diff.gz
 
 ALL_TARGET=
 DEBUG_PACKAGES=	${BUILD_PACKAGES}
Index: par/patches/patch-par_c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ports/textproc/par/patches/patch-par_c,v
diff -u -p -r1.1 patch-par_c
--- par/patches/patch-par_c	11 Mar 2022 12:04:06 -0000	1.1
+++ par/patches/patch-par_c	8 Mar 2026 15:58:21 -0000
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 Index: par.c
 --- par.c.orig
 +++ par.c
-@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
- #include <stdlib.h>
- #include <string.h>
- #include <wchar.h>
-+#include <unistd.h>
+@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
+ #include "buffer.h"    /* Also includes <stddef.h>. */
+ #include "reformat.h"
  
- #undef NULL
- #define NULL ((void *) 0)
++#include <unistd.h>
+ #include <ctype.h>
+ #include <locale.h>
+ #include <stdio.h>
 @@ -730,6 +731,13 @@ int main(int argc, const char * const *argv)
  /* Set the current locale from the environment: */
  
Index: par/pkg/DESCR
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ports/textproc/par/pkg/DESCR,v
diff -u -p -r1.3 DESCR
--- par/pkg/DESCR	15 Dec 2003 21:55:31 -0000	1.3
+++ par/pkg/DESCR	8 Mar 2026 15:58:21 -0000
@@ -13,3 +13,6 @@ paragraph as follows:
 
 If there are suffixes, spaces are inserted before them so that they
 all end in the same column.
+
+Flavour:
+	i18n - add a patch to support multibyte character sets