Re: curses inch()/mvinch() mangle non-ASCII characters of an 8-bit locale on a wide build

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On Sat, Jun 27, 2026 at 07:42:50PM +0300, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> On a wide build (linked against ncursesw), window.inch() and window.mvinc=
h()
> return a wrong value for a non-ASCII character that is representable in t=
he
=2E..
> Only inch()/mvinch() are affected. inchstr()/inchnstr() are not exposed by
> the module, and getbkgd() already round-trips. The write side needs no
> change: ncurses stores each cell as a wchar_t on a wide build, so the
> asymmetry is purely on readback. UTF-8 locales remain unsupported for
> inch().

thanks (I assume "module" in this comment refers to python)

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
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