Re: Ncursesw & Unicode

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vladimir Mitiouchev wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm trying to run cmus (music player) with Unicode support. But 
> configure says:
> checking for NCURSES_LIBS (-lncurses)... yes
> *** Your ncurses does not support wide characters!
> *** Install ncursesw if you need wide character support,
> *** you can ignore this warning otherwise.
>
> I definitely need wide char support. Where should I look for it, what
> do i need to hack, what is DragonFly approach to Unicode/UTF-8?

I thought we support wide chars in ncurses, though not all functions, but I might be mistaken.  A first step would be finding out what is needed and checking if that is possible to support with our current infrastructure.

cheers
 simon

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