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.) -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
