[issue4787] Curses Unicode Support

[Damian]

New submission from Damian <atagar1 at gmail.com>:

Hi, in switching to Python 3.0 I've run 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). It seems that the problem
is that the curses module isn't respecting the system's preferred
encoding (utf-8) which was set via the setlocale function (as per
instructions at
http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/library/curses.html#module-curses).

My apologies in advance if this is my mistake. Cheers! -Damian

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components: Unicode
messages: 78563
nosy: atagar1
severity: normal
status: open
title: Curses Unicode Support
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.0

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