Re: NCurses double-byte enablement

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:16:01PM +0800, Sean Lee wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can somebody tell me how much effort would it take to double-byte enable 
> NCurses?

there's more than one aspect.  I did the easy part a while ago, it's in 5.1: 
storing 16-bits to use in UTF-8.  (I should add this to my FAQ).  If configured
with --enable-wide-chars, it builds a libncursesw rather than libncurses, which
(is not binary-compatible with libncurses) can store/display UTF-8.

But the functions in the X/Open for multibyte support are not implemented -
that would require making a distinction which is not present in the current
code between chtype and attr_t, i.e., implementing cchar_t (a struct).

I'm guessing that it would take a month's concentrated effort to implement the
basic support for multibyte characters.

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