Re: wide characters in perl ncurses wrapper

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Martin von Gagern wrote:

> Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > Some of the data structures which are necessarily visible in the header
> > files are different.  Simple applications (such as this one, perhaps)
> > could in principle be linked with either library.
>
> Ah! I only now noticed that there are also two sets of header files on
> my system. Now I know where the different structures come from. :-)

It could be only one set (since the ones for ncursesw are a superset),
but since it complicates packaging which assumes that packages are
disjoint, most packagers use two...

> So you're saying that using libncursesw would be better, but I can't
> expect it to work out of the box but have to adapt the wrapper sources?
> So far I have avoided autotools and MakeMaker, but this should be
> possible. I'm not sure it's worth the effort, though.

I think it would be "just" modifying the files that determine which
library is used for linking.

> I don't have the time right now, but I might have a look at this in a
> few weeks perhaps. If I fully understand what would be needed by then.
> Talking of wrappers, and out of curiosity: is there one for Java?

charva

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