Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
Does anybody have a ncurses build list? I am building ncurses with only the
wide-character libraries which should hopefully clear up a few of the locale
issues with applications using it (e.g. FS#4418, FS#6384, FS#9872). The
current situation is sort of between doing this and not (we have only the
wide character include files but both libraries).
After some initial problems (don't install an ncurses without a real
libncurses.so before fixing readline & bash!), I have this up and working
and most of the needed core rebuilds done. I'm thinking I will push it to a
separate repo first so that I can get some testing of this by people with
other locales before I push it to [testing].
Are you sure this actually fixes these issues? I suggested the same
thing a while back, but Roman pointed out something regarding Cyrillic
chars or something... I don't know the details, but it had to do with
the fact that not all locales are really UTF friendly.
So I see.... (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4418#comment14208). Am I
100% percent sure? No. But I am quite confident (say 97%). From what I
have read wide-character libraries work with both multibyte and 8-bit
locales, while normal libraries work only in 8-bit locales. Anyway,
that niggling 3% is why I don't want to push it directly to testing....
How about I completely rebuild the stuff in core and stick it
somewhere. Then people can make a testing chroot, install the 10 or so
updated core packages and check that man pages work properly in their
locales. If that doesn't break, then I will go for the whole rebuild.
Also, let me see if our old TODO lists have an ncurses list.
That would be great. Thanks.
Allan
