Re: ncurses or slang [Re: UTF-8 support status.]

[Glenn Maynard <g_lutf8@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:07:42AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > Does that mean for UTF-8 it is better to replace ncurses by slang,
> > or the other way round, or have both and then link against the
> 
> The other way - they provide comparable capabilities (for this task) for the
> short term, but slang lacks a spec, has not achieved compatibility between
> successive releases.
> 
> btw, I noted last week a complaint from someone that the UTF-8 support hadn't
> been incorporated into the main slang development.

Right; it's a Debian patch.  Also, it appears to break line drawing
characters (completely) in the ncurses interface and doesn't do them
correctly UTF-8 natively, either.  (I'm trying to get this fixed, but
don't hold your breath.)

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