curses and unicode

[David M. Cooke]

At some point, "A.M. Kuchling" <amk at amk.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:46:55 +0200, 
> 	Gandalf <gandalf at geochemsource.com> wrote:
>> But I do not know how to do this from Python. I only have the curses 
>> module and the addstr method. The addstr method does not support unicode.
>
> There's a separate set of interfaces for wide-character curses support, with
> functions such as addwstr().  Unfortunately the Python curses module doesn't
> support these functions, and they may or may not be available on your
> platform.  (For example, they don't seem to be available in the version of
> ncurses in Debian unstable.)

You want the libncursesw5 library (ncurses compiled with wide
character support). I suppose there's two libraries as
ncurses-with-wide-chars is API but not ABI compatible with
ncurses-w/o-wide-chars. But, no Python interface with wide characters.

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