Re: i18n + widechars

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.tin.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Urs [ISO-8859-1] Janßen wrote:

> In <[email protected]>, Urs Janßen wrote:
>>> I can't reproduce it in my normal utf-8 environment. Do you have some
>>> more information about how to reproduce it?
>>
>> not really. my normal env. is a non utf-8 env. I started a new shell in
>> an xterm via
>> xterm -u8 -fn "-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1"
>> and set the floowing locales:
>> LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf-8
>> LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.utf-8
>> tin was linked against libncursesw and I got the 'grabbled' output.
>
> /s/libncursesw/libncurses - the problem only shows up if linked
> against libncurses, not if linked against libncursesw.

That's expected behavior (libncurses doesn't support UTF-8, only 8-bit 
locales).

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