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

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 10:40:58AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> 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.)

I did make a note of that (in early November), but line-drawing wasn't as
high-priority as other things.  (The current state of affairs is that it
uses the terminfo to send vt100 controls, which works with XFree86 xterm).

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