Bug#600897: libcurses-ocaml: package does not enable wide character support
Package: libcurses-ocaml
Version: 1.0.3-1+b1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
As of release 1.0.3, upstream ocaml-curses supports
wide-character-enabled ncurses. This feature is required in order to
render UTF-8 encoded text, for example. It would be ideal if the package
enabled this capability.
Supporting this feature would require:
1) Depending on libncursesw5
2) Configuring the package with --enable-widec
The following script can test for support of this feature:
echo -e '#require "curses";;\nlet s = if Curses.Curses_config.wide_ncurses then "wide char ok!" else "no wide char support." in print_endline s;;' | ocaml
Paul
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libcurses-ocaml depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-4 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii ocaml-base-nox [ocaml-bas 3.11.2-1 Runtime system for OCaml bytecode
libcurses-ocaml recommends no packages.
libcurses-ocaml suggests no packages.
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