Package: ruby1.9.1 Version: 1.9.1.378-1 Severity: normal Tags: sid Ruby's curses bindings are compiled without libncursesw5-dev installed. As far as I know, the configure script automatically detects which ncurses-dev is installed and enables/disables the Unicode support accordingly.
How to reproduce: See this - http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/975 Copy the attached snippet into test.rb, then run it using 'ruby1.9.1 test.rb'. Current behaviour: You will see some more-or-less random ASCII characters instead of the intended unicode character. How to fix: Just install libncursesw5-dev when compiling Ruby. (That's what I did and it fixed the problem.) -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ruby1.9.1 depends on: ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libruby1.9.1 1.9.1.378-1 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1. ruby1.9.1 recommends no packages. Versions of packages ruby1.9.1 suggests: ii rdoc1.9.1 1.9.1.378-1 Generate documentation from Ruby s ii ri1.9.1 1.9.1.378-1 Ruby Interactive reference (for Ru pn ruby1.9.1-examples <none> (no description available) ii rubygems1.9.1 1.3.5-2 package management framework for R -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
