Re: [OT] ncursesw and UTF-8
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Allister MacLeod wrote:
> (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?
probably. I see some occasional comments to the effect that there are
patches to make bash work properly with UTF-8, which implies that it
does not.
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