Re: [Python-Dev] [Py3k] curses module and libncursesw library

2009-01-07 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20090108 02:23], Victor Stinner (victor.stin...@haypocalc.com) wrote: >It looks like libncursesw is available on Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X. On FreeBSD I know it is for 7.x, but I am not sure about 6.x. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.o

[Python-Dev] [Py3k] curses module and libncursesw library

2009-01-07 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, Python2 and Python3 tries to link the Python _curses module to the libncusesw dynamic library, or fallback to libncurses (or another implementation). The problem of libncurses is that it doesn't support multibyte charsets like... utf-8. In the Python module, it's not possible to check if we