On Thursday 14 April 2005 10:06 am, Olleg Samoylov wrote: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > > No, the program has to be modified to use wide characters or UTF8 > > internally when formatting text. This should happen in the next > > experimental release or two. > > Very strange design. In SuSE yast-ncurses always change locale in > startup to utf-8. All work fine. Linked with libncursesw.so.5. When I > moved from suse to debian I didn't even expect programs based on ncurses > or slang which breaking utf-8 still exist.
The problem is that unless you just blindly spit strings at the screen, you have to modify you you process strings in order to account for the fact that they use a different way to represent individual characters (chopping strings into small bits becomes especially interesting, which unfortunately is something aptitude does a lot of). Daniel -- /------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------\ | Afternoon, n.: | | That part of the day we spend worrying | | about how we wasted the morning. | \--- Be like the kid in the movie! Play chess! -- http://www.uschess.org --/
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