sup talk - Oct 2007 - Sup on Windows

I can get Sup to work on Windows using cygwin, but it doesn''t handle 
UTF-8 messages properly (or so it seems). Has anyone gotten sup to work 
with a native install of Ruby on Windows?

I''ve tried, but I can''t get the ncurses gem to compile and
install.

(A similar questions is cross-posted to the ruby-talk mailing list.)

-- 
Christopher Warrington <chrisw at rice.edu>
(Away from his normal computer.)

Excerpts from Christopher Warrington''s message of Mon Oct 08 02:28:51
-0700 2007:
> I can get Sup to work on Windows using cygwin,
Wow!
> but it doesn''t handle UTF-8 messages properly (or so it seems).
The UTF-8 support is pretty wonky, even on Linux, because ncurses
doesn''t really support wide characters. There''s a ncursesw,
but no Ruby
wrapper for it except for something from 2005 which I haven''t had to
energy to play with yet.

In my setup, I can see most European and accented characters fine, but
anything else displays as garbage.

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>

William Morgan @ 2007-10-09 8:38:51 AM
"[sup-talk] Sup on Windows" <mid:1191936765-sup-4487 at south>
> [cc''ing list, hope you don''t mind]
No, I don''t. The first one was not meant as a PM. I screwed up.
>> Here''s a screenshot:
http://www.chriswarrington.com/sup_win.png
> Weird, why are all the sender names missing?
I imported those messages from the list archive, so they are not in
the proper mbox format. The e-mail addresses are munged such that
a at b.tld becomes a at b.tld. In other words, not a bug.
>> I was getting lots of errors like these when importing my archive:
>> [Tue Oct 09 01:51:05 -0500 2007] warning: error decoding message body
from
>> "us-ascii": invalid encoding ("utf-8",
""us-ascii"")
> This sounds like iconv is being stubborn. Can you do this?
>   $ irb -riconv
>   >> Iconv.iconv "utf-8", "us-ascii", "hello
there"
>   => ["hello there"]
It seems to work:
$ irb -riconv
irb(main):001:0> Iconv.iconv "utf-8", "us-ascii",
"hello there"
=> ["hello there"]
irb(main):002:0> Iconv.iconv  "us-ascii", "utf-8",
"hello there"
=> ["hello there"]
irb(main):003:0> Iconv.iconv  "us-ascii", "iso-8859-15",
"hello there"
=> ["hello there"]
irb(main):004:0> Iconv.iconv  "iso-8859-15", "utf-8",
"hello there"
=> ["hello there"]
irb(main):005:0> Iconv.iconv  "iso-8859-15", "us-ascii",
"hello there"
=> ["hello there"]
irb(main):006:0> Iconv.iconv  "us-ascii", "iso-8859-15",
"hello there"
=> ["hello there"]

-- 
Christopher Warrington <chrisw at rice.edu>


"When in doubt, use brute force."
-Ken Thompson
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