Is the Python binding for ncurses unicode capable?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Brian McNally wrote:
> Thanks for responding to my question. I'm still a little confused
> though. How can I encode unicode strings as UTF-8? My terminal does
> support UTF-8, but from looking at Python's ncurses API, it looks like
> all of the methods for displaying characters want an ASCII code (which
> seems to be an integer between 0 -255).

If u is a Unicode string, you do

   s = u.encode("UTF-8")

to get a byte string s.

You are mistaken assuming that the ncurses API requires ASCII, and you
are mistaken assuming ASCII is a sequence of integer values 0..255.

ASCII (the American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is
encoded using a sequence of bytes in the range 0..127.

UTF-8 is encoded using a sequence of bytes in the range 0..255
(as is Latin-1, windows-1252, and any other character encoding/charset).

ncurses expects byte strings (although I'm uncertain as to what
impact multi-byte encodings have in ncurses).

Regards,
Martin