Hi, Python2 and Python3 tries to link the Python _curses module to the libncusesw dynamic library, or fallback to libncurses (or another implementation). The problem of libncurses is that it doesn't support multibyte charsets like... utf-8. In the Python module, it's not possible to check if we are using libncursesw or libncurses.
Would it possible to change the Python3 configure script to always use libncursesw instead of falling back to an alternate non-unicode library? Which means no _curses module if libncursesw is missing. Related bug: http://bugs.python.org/issue4787 It looks like libncursesw is available on Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X. About (Open)Solaris, a libncurses package has been created in septembre 2008, but no unicode version yet. On Windows, there is a Cygwin port of libncurses, but I don't know if it contains the unicode version. -- Victor Stinner aka haypo http://www.haypocalc.com/blog/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
