Is the Python binding for ncurses unicode capable?

[Thomas Dickey]

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

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

It depends on whether python's curses binding is linked with the wide-character
flavor (ncursesw) or the normal one.  If it's linked with ncursesw, strings are
interpreted according to the locale settings.

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