On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:56:02AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 06:53:54PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 03:50:11PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:40:40PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:27:44AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote:
> > > > > This was caused by a change in libncurses5. Linking against 
> > > > > libncursesw5
> > > > > fixes this bug.
> > > >
> > > > Is this a portable solution or does this problem only exist on Debian.
> > > > I've never seen this behaviour before... I also saw reports of the next
> > > > version of ncurses doing away with the wide version?
> > >
> > > Hmm, good point. At least for soname version 5 in Debian linking against
> > > ncursesw solves this bug. The following changes by ncurses' upstream 
> > > changed
> > > the behaviour of the non-wide version and thus caused this bug:
> >
> > It's not clear from reading the bug-report, but I had the impression that
> > the data should have been printable - since it's 8-bit data, etc.
>
> No, it is UTF-8, German Umlauts :)

... and these are 16 bit long in UTF-8



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