Python 3.0 Curses Unicode

[Damian Johnson]

It seems as if the curses module in Python 3.0 isn't respecting the system's
preferred encoding (utf-8) which was set via:
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')

The purpose of this was described at the top of '
http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/library/curses.html#module-curses'. The
getlocale function is reporting the proper values ('en_US', 'UTF8') but
addstr is clearly not treating it as Unicode - is this a bug? -Damian

2008/12/28 Damian Johnson <atagar1 at gmail.com>

> Hi, I've switched to Python 3.0 for a new Japanese vocab quizzing
> application due to its much improved Unicode support. However, I'm running
> into an issue with displaying Unicode characters via curses. In Python 2.x a
> simple hello-world looks like:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> # coding=UTF-8
>
> import curses
> import locale
>
> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,"")
>
> def doStuff(stdscr):
>   message = u"hello わたし!"
>   stdscr.addstr(0, 0, message.encode("utf-8"), curses.A_BLINK)
>   stdscr.getch() # pauses until a key's hit
>
> curses.wrapper(doStuff)
>
> This works. However, when I try to come up with an equivalent for Python
> 3.0:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import curses
> import locale
>
> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,"")
>
> def doStuff(stdscr):
>   message = "hello わたし!"
>   stdscr.addstr(0, 0, message, curses.A_BLINK)
>   stdscr.getch() # pauses until a key's hit
>
> curses.wrapper(doStuff)
>
> It fails (printing gibberish to the console). Anyone have a clue what I'm
> doing wrong? Thanks! -Damian
>
> PS. Is the "# coding=UTF-8" header meaningless in Python 3.0? Also, is
> "locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,"")" still necessary for getting curses to
> provide Unicode support?
>
>
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