Replacing curses (Was: Re: Problem with curses and UTF-8)

[Ian Ward]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>Ian Ward wrote:
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>>Any Ideas?
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>I think there is one or more ncurses bugs somewhere.
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>The ncurses documentation suggests that you should link with
>ncurses_w instead of linking with ncurses - you might try
>that as well. If it helps, please do report back.
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>Ultimately, somebody will need to debug ncurses to find out
>what precisely happens, and why.
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Thank you for your response. I see there are other people that have run 
into the same problem.

I've had to work around many curses issues while developing Urwid (a 
console UI library). Even if the bugs are fixed I'm going to have to 
bypass the curses module to support UTF-8 in a reliable way for all users.

I think there are enough escape sequences common to all modern terminals 
so that I can build a generic curses-replacement for my library. 
However, if someone is already working on something similar I don't want 
to reinvent the wheel.

Ian Ward