* "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-20 07:33]:
> I just tried to reproduce the problem, with python 2.3.5-9
> and libncurses5 5.5-1, and it just worked. I couldn't try
> the original problem (since I don't know what to use cplay
> for), but in Martin Michlmayrs test case, the bullets display
> fine (the Japanese characters show as a dotted box, due
> to a lacking glyph).
Woo, thanks for the note. I can confirm that this works now - I see
the Chinese character too. However, while I can see the umlaut a and
the Chinese ren, the bullet is not displayed properly. Do you get
this too? Instead of • I see [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I also tried with stock trunk Python, and it also work, so it is
> unlikely that something has changed in Python; instead, it appears
> that ncurses does now do the right thing.
Maybe Thomas can comment.
BTW, I've attached the test program again.
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 *-
import curses
import time
a = 'ä'
b = '•'
c = '人'
u_a = unicode(a, "utf-8")
u_b = unicode(b, "utf-8")
u_c = unicode(c, "utf-8")
print " - normal Python print -"
print a
print u_a
print b
print u_b
print c
print u_c
time.sleep(3)
w = curses.initscr()
w.addstr(" - printing with curses -\n")
w.addstr(" - normal string\n")
w.addstr('umlaut a: ' + a)
w.addstr("\n")
w.addstr('bullet: ' + b)
w.addstr("\n")
w.addstr("Chinese ren: " + c)
w.addstr("\n")
w.addstr("\n")
w.addstr(" - Unicode string\n")
w.addstr('umlaut a: ' + u_a.encode("utf-8"))
w.addstr("\n")
w.addstr('bullet: ' + u_b.encode("utf-8"))
w.addstr("\n")
w.addstr("Chinese ren: " + u_c.encode("utf-8"))
w.addstr("\n")
w.addstr("\n")
w.refresh()
time.sleep(3)
curses.endwin()
