Thomas Dickey wrote: > Both libraries respond to locale. But ncurses only deals in single-byte > encodings, e.g., ISO-8859-1 through ISO-8859-15. ncursesw supports that, > but adds support for multi-byte encodings, e.g., UTF-8. For the latter, > one can also have characters that combine (a printable character combined > with other characters that overlay it or combine to form a new character). > > ncurses stores the character data in one byte per cell. > ncursesw requires more than one byte per cell. > That's the reason for two libraries. > > But since ncurses (not ncursesw) doesn't know about multibyte encoding, > it can't do anything related to the locale for those.
How could I tell the difference? I'm trying to render UTF-8 text with ncurses (5.5) on Debian unstable, and it seems to work just fine. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
