Ncursesw & Unicode

Tom Hummel tom at bluespice.org
Mon Oct 9 13:43:43 PDT 2006


Vladimir Mitiouchev schrieb:
> Hello!
> I'm trying to run cmus (music player) with Unicode support. But
> configure says:
> checking for NCURSES_LIBS (-lncurses)... yes
> *** Your ncurses does not support wide characters!
> *** Install ncursesw if you need wide character support,
> *** you can ignore this warning otherwise.

'bmake show-options' may present you with the neccessary options you
have with pkgsrc - dunno about ncursesw with this thing.

> I definitely need wide char support. Where should I look for it, what
> do i need to hack, what is DragonFly approach to Unicode/UTF-8?

I remember some issues in the distant past - I remember very little of
that, other than that I've havn't had any problems.

tom





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