From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 25 22:16:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD9616A47B; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:16:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jr@opal.com) Received: from smtp.vzavenue.net (smtp.vzavenue.net [66.171.59.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A141F43D6B; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:16:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jr@opal.com) Received: from 118.79.171.66.subscriber.vzavenue.net (HELO linwhf.opal.com) ([66.171.79.118]) by smtp.vzavenue.net with ESMTP; 25 Jun 2006 18:16:42 -0400 X-REPUTATION: -0.7 X-REMOTE-IP: 66.171.79.118 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-IronPort-AV: i="4.06,173,1149480000"; d="scan'208"; a="38744381:sNHT15729129" Received: from linwhf.opal.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by linwhf.opal.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5PMGfGu080181; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:16:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jr@opal.com) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=linwhf.opal.com) by ASSP-nospam; 25 Jun 2006 18:16:41 -0400 Received: (from jr@localhost) by linwhf.opal.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k5PMGeER080180; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:16:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jr) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:16:40 -0400 From: "J.R. Oldroyd" To: Rong-en Fan Message-ID: <20060625221640.GI48766@linwhf.opal.com> References: <6eb82e0606091906j7d9f69aarcf1f9738c7565677@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6eb82e0606091906j7d9f69aarcf1f9738c7565677@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating ncurses in base X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:16:53 -0000 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