On 17/04/10 at 17:48 +0200, j wrote: > 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.)
I'm a bit worried by the fact that the changelog entry says: "non UTF-8 strings should be converted explicitly." http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/repositories/revision/ruby-19?rev=21508 I'm not a Ruby-ncurses user myself, could you check that non-UTF8 strings also work fine? Thanks -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [email protected] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [email protected] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
