ncurses

[TaoTePuh]

Okay, after fetching the new ncurses* :

1.) mc works again
2.) compiling ncmpcpp against ncurses works too.

Good boys do good jobs. Thank you!

[bmarkus]

Thanks

[bmarkus]

ncursesw, ncurses compiled with widec option enabling UTF-8 is posted. Look for ncursesw.tcz, ncursesw-utils.tcz and ncursesw-dev.tcz in the repo. These can be installed alongside with their normal ncurses counterpart. ncurses-doc.tcz and ncurses-terminfo.tcz are common for both versions.

ncurses-common.tcz which is a set of mandatory components for both versions loaded automatically by the main extension.

ncurses-utils.tcz and ncursesw-utils.tcz installing applications with the same name but linked against different libs, do not mix them.

[TaoTePuh]

Cool!

I will try to build new ncmpcpp with the option "--enable-unicode".

[Jason W]

I will get in around 8pm EST and upload it then.

[TaoTePuh]

I have rebuilt ncmpcpp with UTF-8 support (--enable-unicode) against the new ncursesw*, then  tested :

                Terminal/locale   UTF-8    ISO-8859-15    C
                --------------------------------------------
                aterm              2)          3)         1)
                LXTerminal         OK          4)         1)
                Terminal (Xfce)    OK          3)         1)
               
                1) non-ISO-8859-1 chars are not displayed correctly
                   search for special characters only with ".." and regex-mode
                   
                2) non-ISO-8859-1 chars are not displayed correctly
                   search for special characters works but they are not
                   displayed correctly
               
                3) characters are displayed correctly
                   search for special characters only with ".." and regex-mode
               
                4) characters are displayed correctly
                   search for special characters only with ".." and regex-mode
                   borders and lines are not displayed correctly


As expected, it works only in an UTF-8 environment really well.

[tinypoodle]

Might be of potential interest if behaviour on a VT would be included in comparison.

[bmarkus]

Both lxterminal and Xfce4's terminal is using the same terminal engine, vte therefore their main behavior expected to be the same.

[TaoTePuh]

Might be of potential interest if behaviour on a VT would be included in comparison.

I have no experience with VT's. Please teach me.

[curaga]

The console font is even more limited than the bitmap one used by X and aterm, so not too good results would be expected. For special characters it's best to use a TTF-supporting terminal with a good truetype font.

[tinypoodle]

Ok, if so, then I guess what i suggested is futile, disregard please.