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Re: UTF-8 curses

To: linux-utf8@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 curses
From: "T.E.Dickey" <dickey@clark.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 07:26:57 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <19991026105351.E1192@daisy.vocalis.com> from "Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@rano.demon.co.uk>" at Oct 26, 99 10:53:51 am
Reply-To: linux-utf8@nl.linux.org
Sender: owner-linux-utf8@nl.linux.org

> > > The UNIX spec says curses addstr takes a multibyte string (which may  
> > > or may not be UTF-8). This means that it's not compatible with the  
> > > traditional 8-bit curses. So I'm supposed to have two versions of the  
> >  
> > traditional curses (the one in the spec ;-) is not really 8-bit clean. 
> > some implementations are - but not long enough to call them "traditional". 
>  
> Maybe "traditional" is the wrong word, but a typical Linux system has 
> a lot of curses programs happily working in Latin-1 (or some other 
> 8-bit character set) and it would be shame to break them all. 

something like that (ncurses is 8-bit clean afaik).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
dickey@clark.net
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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