From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 9 16:33:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 474D916A402 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:33:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [63.240.77.83]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1376913C469 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:33:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from icarus.home.lan (c-71-198-0-135.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[71.198.0.135]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20070409163354013003epmre>; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:33:55 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 80B6C1FA03D; Mon, 9 Apr 2007 09:33:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 09:33:54 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Rong-en Fan Message-ID: <20070409163354.GA15528@icarus.home.lan> Mail-Followup-To: Rong-en Fan , stable@freebsd.org, fbsd@opal.com References: <6eb82e0704061105u1f2c2fedr95ceae1393c66b6c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6eb82e0704061105u1f2c2fedr95ceae1393c66b6c@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Cc: stable@freebsd.org, fbsd@opal.com Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ncurses is updated X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:33:56 -0000 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 |