Problem with curses and UTF-8

[Ian Ward]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>>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.
> 
> 
> ncursesw

I'll test it if someone would dumb down "link with ncursesw instead of 
ncurses" a little for me.

I tried:
./configure --with-libs="ncursesw5"

and it failed saying:
checking size of wchar_t... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof 
(wchar_t), 77

Ian Ward