Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 09:33:54 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, fbsd@opal.com Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ncurses is updated Message-ID: <20070409163354.GA15528@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <6eb82e0704061105u1f2c2fedr95ceae1393c66b6c@mail.gmail.com> References: <6eb82e0704061105u1f2c2fedr95ceae1393c66b6c@mail.gmail.com>
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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! 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. -- | 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 |
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