Silvan Jegen wrote: > I thought that maybe one of the programs is linked against the > non-"...w" variant of the curses library (i. e. "libncurses" instead > of "libncursesw") but it turns out that NetBSD's curses library does > not have this separation at all. Interesting stuff.
Some programs, like already mentioned vifm, have ugly installers that look specifically for ncurses and ncursesw, and pkgsrc has wrappers USE_CURSES and FAKE_NCURSES for them to use the system's curses. So, yeah, you don't need additional switches for wide characters. -- caóc