Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:49:32 +0800 From: "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>, ache@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ncurses is updated Message-ID: <6eb82e0704091049u256f649ei80537fac7b876a92@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070409163354.GA15528@icarus.home.lan> References: <6eb82e0704061105u1f2c2fedr95ceae1393c66b6c@mail.gmail.com> <20070409163354.GA15528@icarus.home.lan>
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On 4/10/07, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:05:45AM +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote: > > I just merged ncurses 5.6 and wide character support from > > HEAD to 6.x. That means ncurses in 6.x is now up-to-date and > > has wide character support, i.e., ncursesw library. > > I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for this. You have no idea > how long I've been waiting (okay, now you do: years!), as I never felt > comfortable with having two versions of ncurses installed on a single > box (base + port). > > So far it works great. Thank you so much! You are welcome. > The only thing I've found, though, is that dialog(1) does not appear to > properly handle UTF-8 encoding. Line drawing characters show up as > gibberish (alphanumeric characters). I realise dialog isn't part of > ncurses, but it does rely on it. We should consider updating dialog to > match this change. You mean it display sometihng like "tqxu" instead of line drawing characters? Last time I checked, I thought it is terminal related. When I use screen, it uses line drawing character. For PuTTY, see: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-April/146577.html The current dialog + utf8 MacOS's Term.app seems work just fine. I'm playing with devel/cdialog and no matter it uses ncurses or ncursesw the result is the same. I'm CCing ache@ who imports GNU's dialog to our base and cdialog/ncurses author, hope they can comment :-) Regards, Rong-En Fan > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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