On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 10:40:58AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:07:42AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > Does that mean for UTF-8 it is better to replace ncurses by slang, > > > or the other way round, or have both and then link against the > > > > The other way - they provide comparable capabilities (for this task) for the > > short term, but slang lacks a spec, has not achieved compatibility between > > successive releases. > > > > btw, I noted last week a complaint from someone that the UTF-8 support hadn't > > been incorporated into the main slang development. > > Right; it's a Debian patch. Also, it appears to break line drawing > characters (completely) in the ncurses interface and doesn't do them > correctly UTF-8 natively, either. (I'm trying to get this fixed, but > don't hold your breath.)
I did make a note of that (in early November), but line-drawing wasn't as high-priority as other things. (The current state of affairs is that it uses the terminfo to send vt100 controls, which works with XFree86 xterm). -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
