On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:17:14AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >My patched version of slang went into unstable recently. If it doesn't > > >cause too many problems, maybe it will go into testing eventually, and > > >maybe Debian's Mutt could then be linked with it instead of ncurses. > > I remember I switched from slang to ncurses to fix some display > > problems, so I'd like to hear some good arguments to change again. > > Do you know about the experimental UTF-8 support in ncurses 5.1? > > I'll test it when I get a chance. > > According to ncurses-5.2/INSTALL you have to configure with > --enable-widec and then you get a separate library libncursesw.so, > which is not binary-compatible with the usual library. > > If we test this, and it works, how might it be packaged? > > The obvious way is to include libncursesw.so in libncurses5 and link > mutt with it. However, it might be worth checking there isn't about to > be an upstream ncurses-5.3 that does things differently, and you might > want to put libncursesw.so in a separate binary package to keep > certain combinations of packages (such as the base system) smaller. > > I've copying this to Daniel Jacobowitz, who maintains libncurses5.
I would probably use a separate library package, actually. I admit that I don't know anything about the UTF-8 support, however. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team
