Package: python2.3
Version: 2.3.5-14
Severity: normal
The 'curses' module seems not to support UTF-8 charset. I believe that
linking with 'libncursesw' (rather than with 'libncurses') would solve
the problem.
$ locale charmap
UTF-8
$ cat buggy
import locale
encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
import curses
from curses.wrapper import wrapper as curses_wrapper
def main(window):
from time import sleep
import unicodedata
ch = unichr(0x141)
window.addstr(unicodedata.name(ch) + ' = ' + ch.encode(encoding))
window.refresh()
sleep(5)
curses_wrapper(main)
$ python2.3 buggy
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH STROKE = Å~A
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages python2.3 depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-3 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdb4.3 4.3.29-4.1 Berkeley v4.3 Database Libraries [
ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libreadline5 5.1-7 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8b-2 SSL shared libraries
ii python-central 0.5.1 register and build utility for Pyt
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages python2.3 recommends:
pn python2.3-cjkcodecs | python2 <none> (no description available)
pn python2.3-cjkcodecs | python2 <none> (no description available)
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Jakub Wilk
