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[OT] ncursesw and UTF-8



(note, I got this reply in triplicate)

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:06:43AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Allister MacLeod wrote:
> > I found that using UTF-8 in my xterm still caused me problems with
> > wide characters.  That is, certain alignments were thrown off in
> > tabular displays (I think mutt using ncurses did this,) and line
> > editing acted weird when I tried to backspace over wide characters.
> but using ncursesw should work better (ncurses with wide-character
> support).

Hmm.. perhaps that's the missing piece to me using UTF-8 nicely and
comfortably.  Would that affect the commandline editing of bash,
though?

Ciao,
 Allister

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