After having used rxvt without Unicode support for years, the other
day I discovered MinTTY, which does support UTF-8 - very nice!
The occasional Greek or Cyrillic letters showing up in mails will no
longer be displayed as "?" or "??" in the Mutt mail reader, I thought.
Same story for editing with Vim.
Not quite, though. There are display and editing problems in both
programs. From reading, I believe this is due to their being linked to
ncurses instead of ncursesw ("w" for "wide characters"), as shown by
ldd:
$ ldd $(which vim) | grep curses
cygncurses-10.dll => /usr/bin/cygncurses-10.dll (0x69580000)
$ ldd $(which mutt) | grep curses
cygncurses-8.dll => /usr/bin/cygncurses-8.dll (0x6c180000)
Is this assessment correct, and complete in that this is the defining
reason for the display problems?
The wide-character ncursesw was announced in January:
This is the first official release of ncurses compiled to support wide
characters, and can be installed simultaineously with the "narrow"
ncurses package(s).
http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-annou...@cygwin.com/msg03179.html
It sounds like Unicode is the preferred way now:
Actually, I'd prefer if people started using -I/usr/include/ncursesw
and linking against the wide version of the library instead.
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-05/msg00465.html
People seem to have had success compiling Mutt with ncursesw:
http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=124
Are ncursesw versions of Vim and Mutt imminent? Or is it not going to
happen anytime soon?
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