Bug#847809: ITP: tcvt -- multicolumn virtual terminal

[wferi@niif.hu (Ferenc Wágner)]

Adrien CLERC <bugs-debian@antipoul.fr> writes:

> Le 11/12/2016 à 23:39, Ferenc Wágner a écrit :
>
>> * Package name    : tcvt
>>   Version         : git snapshot 82c24e2
>>   Upstream Author : Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
>> * URL             : http://subdivi.de/~helmut/tcvt/
>
> From the main page:
> Multibyte encodings such as utf8 are not supported, because Python is buggy.
>
> Is that still an issue? I highly doubt that a terminal application that
> doesn't support UTF8 is useful nowadays.

Unfortunately, this is still an issue and indeed limits the
applicability domain of the software.  However, it became feasible to
fix by dropping Python 2 support and work is ongoing now.
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Regards,
Feri