Hi all, 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. Regards, Rong-En Fan
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 |
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:28:15PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:55:20PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > For PuTTY, most users have it incorrectly set to "xterm"(*). > > There are no clues - so I added the environment variable to help. > > BTW, we have "putty" terminal entry for that purpose.yes - but see http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html A.5.1 What terminal type does PuTTY use? which is not really helpful. Compare PuTTY and xterm using ftp://invisible-island.net/vttest/ (the difference in wrapping behavior which is evident in the first menu selection is reflected in the different terminal descriptions). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 228 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070413/31f07755/attachment.pgp