On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 01:45:58PM +0000, Robin Haberkorn via Bug reports for ncurses, the GNU implementation of curses wrote: > On Fri Jan 30, 2026 at 19:04:01 GMT +01, the GNU implementation of curses > Robin Haberkorn via Bug reports for ncurses wrote: > > Whereas CCHARW_MAX is ncurses-specific, but 5 is probably > > a safe value even on PDCurses. > > Just that NetBSD curses appears to reserve 8 wchar_t using its own > macro CURSES_CCHAR_MAX. Confusingly they do define CCHARW_MAX as well, > but never actually use it...
sure. but that's implemented several later, using ncurses as a reference, https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-netbsd.html#widechar and not actually finishing the job... (that's a known issue that it should be 6, but again it's an ABI change) -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net
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