On Jun 7 11:23, Michael Ludwig wrote: > 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?
Thanks for the heads up. I'll build the next release of vim (there's a 7.3 release coming soon) against ncursesw. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
