On Wednesday 04 May 2005 09:51 am, Michael Wardle wrote: > ÂFrom what I have read, the wide character version of ncurses, ncursesw > (Debian package: libncursesw5), is supposed to provide UTF-8 encoded > line drawing characters using the same API, yet relinking the CVS > version of aptitude against -lncursesw exhibits the same behavior. > Indeed, testvscreen in the source package and other example curses > applications also still draw boxes using lqqq...x as well.
aptitude has all sorts of problems in UTF8 right now (the formatting algorithms and stuff need to be rewritten for UTF8), so it refuses to produce UTF8 output at all. This probably explains what you're seeing. Daniel -- /------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------\ | "But what the eagle does not realize is that it is | | participating in a crude form of natural selection. | | One day, a tortoise will learn to fly." | | -- Terry Pratchett, _Small Gods_ | \--------------------- A duck! -- http://www.python.org --------------------/
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