Subj : Ncurses 6.0 and newer versions
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Wed Sep 27 2017 16:37:30

Hello Wilfred,

On Wed Sep 27 2017 08:18:38, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 WV> Well, for me with an even older ncurses:

 WV> Source RPM  : ncurses-5.9-53.4.src.rpm
 WV> Build Date  : Sun Oct 25 06:47:41 2015

 WV> tmux fixed some things, but broke others. So I'm not using it
 WV> regurlarly, except when I want to read some utf-8 chars. So I regard
 WV> it as a kludge, not a (true) fix.

Sorry to hear that. It fixed everything (for me) that was wrong with golded in 
a UTF-8 console, obviously except actually displaying UTF-8 cyrillics in the 
reader itself, which is why I use an external editor.

However, the true fix would most likely be to fix golded to work with the 
latest changes in ncurses-6.0, or possibly (at least according to Maurice) to 
compile the latest version of ncurses with wide character support _only_, 
pairing with compiling golded with WIDE_NCURSES=1.

Since the former is most likely not going to be done, and I don't plan on 
compiling a custom version of ncurses, even a kludge is a fix in my book. 
<shrug>

Regards,
Nick

.... "Не знаю. Я здесь только работаю."
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