On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 01:51:39PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Now that this is on the record, I'll reply to this after I've > determined what it brings to the party - I'm hoping for better > display of characters in vim and mutt, but I suspect an absence > of fonts is the main problem. > OK, my initial findings from using ncursesw in the console with a locale of en_GB.UTF-8 are that I can see zero benefit. In particular, common West-European accented characters (e.g. the o-umlaut in my .sig) display as multiple characters. This is no different from how they display with the book's non-wide ncurses.
On xterms on systems with the non-wide ncurses, many of these characters do display correctly, and I can even generate some of them from the keyboard. Actually, there is one benefit, nicer boxes in the kernel's make menuconfig (they have highlights and shadows). So, at this stage I'm not going to suggest switching to ncursesw. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce _______________________________________________ Clfs-support mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clfs-support
