On 7 June 2010 13:44, Michael Ludwig wrote: > Andy Koppe schrieb am 07.06.2010 um 12:14:20 (+0100): >> On 7 June 2010 11:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> > I'll build the next release of vim (there's a 7.3 release coming >> > soon) against ncursesw. >> >> Probably a good idea anyway, but as far as I can see, vim works fine >> with UTF-8 already. > >> Michael, what are the issues you're seeing with vim? Are you using >> Cygwin 1.7? > > As you say, Vim works fine with UTF-8. It's just that until very > recently, I've been using the rxvt terminal emulator, which lacks > Unicode support; so Vim being compiled against ncurses (*without* > wide characters) was a good match. > > Now that I'm switching to the MinTTY terminal, which supports > Unicode/UTF-8, I need a Vim compiled against ncursesw (*with* > wide characters) if my assessment of the situation is correct.
If vim works fine with UTF-8 already, what does it matter which ncurses it's linked against? I don't know vim's internals, but I'd guess it works without ncursesw because it does its own screen buffering and displaying, using ncurses only for accessing the terminfo database. Andy -- 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
