Python 3.0 Curses Unicode

[Damian Johnson]

Just resolved the issue (turned out to be an issue with linked ncurses
libraries). If others run into this discussion of the solution can be found
at:
http://bugs.python.org/issue4787

Cheers! -Damian

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Damian Johnson <atagar1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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