Re: UTF-8 editor support in Debian?
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:55:00PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 03:27:24PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously Drew Parsons wrote:
> > > And is it a good idea to provide support libraries for it too? For
> > > instance, ncurses support for utf8 is supposed to be more or less
> > > stable now, so wouldn't it be a good idea to use the --multibyte
> > > configure flag to provide the multibyte version of ncurses?
> >
> > I suspect that will break binary compatibility which is something we
> > can't do.
> >
>
> Not so. The --enable-widec flag to ./configure produces
> libncursesw.so, so it'll be distinct from the normal libncurses.so.
> (they said the UTF-8 support might become standard in ncurses6).
>
> And that'd make it much easier (I suppose) for users (like me :) ) to recompile
> mutt against libncursesw.so, Otherwise they have to recompile both
> libncurses as well as mutt.
If you look at ncurses' bug list, you'll see that I plan do this next
upload of ncurses (which may be a few more weeks).
Dan
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