On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 01:36:53AM +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Here are the bits for wide character support in libcurses, libform,
> libpanel, libmenu.
> 
> Apply the diff below and extract this tarball in src/lib (note this is
> on a slow connection so please don't bother unless you are going to
> test):
> 
>       http://nicm.ath.cx/~nicholas/ncursesw.tar.gz
> 
> It is a major bump for all four libs. The files are also on cvs in
> ~nicm/ncursesw/.
> 
> This builds all the libraries with the widechar code and also links them
> to "w" versions (libncursesw, libformw, etc). Some OSs only put the
> widechar stuff into libncursesw and not libncurses - I don't much like
> knobs in the form of library names but if opinion is that we should go
> that way then I can change it.
> 
> I've been running with this for a while on amd64 without seeing any
> problems, and UTF-8 seems fine in mutt - the port picks it up fine, then
> you just need to set LANG. It also seems fine on sparc64.
> 
> Any ports person like to volunteer to help test this/take care of
> breakage? :-)

I'll run a bulk with it if noone beats me to it.

Landry

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