Yes, it does solve the problem.
Compile python with ncursesw library.
Btw Ubuntu 7 has it "out of the box".
> Hi All,
>
> Recently I ran into a problem with UTF-8 surrport when using curses
> library in python 2.5 in Fedora 7. I found out that the program using
> curses cannot print out unicode characters correctly on UTF-8 enabled
> console. I googled around and got an impression that the reason for
> this problem is that python is linked with libcurses library instead
> of libcursesw. The latter one is said to be able to solve this
> problem. Has anybody tried this? How to manually let python use
> libcursesw? Thanks a lot!
>
> Here is a test program:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> import curses
> def keyloop(stdscr):
> # Clear the screen and display the menu of keys
> stdscr_y, stdscr_x = stdscr.getmaxyx()
> menu_y = (stdscr_y-3)-1
> str = u'This is my first curses python program. Press \'q\' to
> exit. (¤£™)'
> stdscr.addstr(menu_y, 4, str.encode('utf-8'))
> xpos = stdscr_x / 2
> ypos = stdscr_y / 2
> while (1):
> stdscr.move(ypos, xpos)
> c = stdscr.getch()
> if 0 < c < 256:
> c = chr(c)
> if c in 'Qq': break
> else: pass
> elif c == curses.KEY_UP and ypos > 0: ypos -= 1
> elif c == curses.KEY_DOWN and ypos < stdscr_y - 1: ypos += 1
> elif c == curses.KEY_LEFT and xpos > 0: xpos -= 1
> elif c == curses.KEY_RIGHT and xpos < stdscr_x - 1: xpos += 1
> else: pass
> def main(stdscr):
> keyloop(stdscr)
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> curses.wrapper(main)
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