On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:01:01PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > By the way, ncurses(3X): > > > The ncurses library is intended to be BASE-level conformant with the XSI Curses > > standard. Certain portions of the EXTENDED XSI Curses functionality > > (including color support) are supported. The following EXTENDED XSI Curses > > calls in support of wide (multibyte) characters are not yet implemented: ... > > addstr isn't in this list, so I assume this is a list of missing wide support,
no - addstr's definition was changed from the XSI draft to release (originally it wasn't shown as multibyte-aware). The comment in the manpage dates back to the draft (with updates for the things that I saw in the release). > > actually the more I look at it, the better it looks from the standpoint > > of compatibility - not that this is guaranteed to have much impression > > on bulk packagers. (I understand that slang users cannot possibly be > > concerned about compatibility - or else they haven't thought very long > > about it). > > Er, what looks better for compatibility with what? The slang patch is > horrible for compatibility (it's not binary-compatible, not quitesource- > compatible, though most programs wouldn't notice, and it's a bit ugly.) while the header files can be compatible, as I see it, the libraries cannot (without a recompile, that is - nothing so gross as the slang patch but still some glitches). -- 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/
