On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Egmont Koblinger wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 07:14:41PM +0200, Tomasz K?oczko wrote: > >> BTW: anyone is working on UFT-8 support for ncurses(w) backend ? > > I don't think so, and I don't think it is worth it. Maintaining two backends > IMHO just causes headaches while it doesn't make mc better. I still can't > see why developers do not decide which one to use and drop the other one.
Maybe compatibility with older UN*Xes with curses but no slang? > With Unicode support maintaining the two will be much harder since AFAIK > slang works with UTF-8 while ncurses uses UCS-4. Hence a completely > different patch would be required for the two cases. Last time I played with it ncursesw (but not plain ncurses) handled UTF-8 just fine. e.g. you can pass a UTF-8 encoded string to addstr(), and provided the locale is set correctly, ncursesw will compute its width correctly. It is *also* possible to use addwstr() with UCS-4, but not compulsory. Bart _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
