[issue18118] curses utf8 output broken in Python2

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

u"äöü" encoded to "utf-8" gives '\xc3\xa4\xc3\xb6\xc3\xbc'

"\303\303\303\274" is '\xc3\xc3\xc3\xbc'.

I guess that curses considers that '\xc3\xa4' is a string of 2 characters: screen.addstr(0, 1, "ö") replaces the second "character", '\xa4'.

I suppose that screen.addstr(0, 0, u"äöü".encode("utf-8")) works.

If "_cursessomething.so" is already linked against libncursesw.so.5, the fix is to use waddwstr(), but such change cannot be done in a minor release like Python 2.7.6. So I'm closing this issue as wont fix => you have to move to Python 3.3.

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resolution:  -> wont fix
status: open -> closed

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