Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:16:40 -0400 From: "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com> To: Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating ncurses in base Message-ID: <20060625221640.GI48766@linwhf.opal.com> In-Reply-To: <6eb82e0606091906j7d9f69aarcf1f9738c7565677@mail.gmail.com> References: <6eb82e0606091906j7d9f69aarcf1f9738c7565677@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jun 09, 22:06, Rong-en Fan wrote: > Hi, > > As you may know, the current ncurses in the base system is rather old > (it is 4 years old). I have been working on updating ncurses to the latest > version 5.5 and enable wide character as default. I have put the > description, > goal, issues, current status, and tarball for test at the following URL: > > http://www.rafan.org/FreeBSD/ncurses/ > I have some notes about Unicode support on FreeBSD here: http://opal.com/freebsd/unicode.html put together about 9-12 months or so ago. Those notes discuss how to enable wide-character support for various libraries, system tools and ports. Any work to make the base ncurses have wide-character support will simplify life a lot as this stuff needs to be redone after every system or ports upgrade. -jr
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