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Re: Unicode/UTF-8 support (MinTTY) - ncursesw - Mutt, Vim
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 12:40:43 +0200
- Subject: Re: Unicode/UTF-8 support (MinTTY) - ncursesw - Mutt, Vim
- References: <20100607092355.GB3028@wladimir>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jun 7 11:23, Michael Ludwig wrote:
> The wide-character ncursesw was announced in January:
>
> This is the first official release of ncurses compiled to support wide
> characters, and can be installed simultaineously with the "narrow"
> ncurses package(s).
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-announce@cygwin.com/msg03179.html
>
> It sounds like Unicode is the preferred way now:
>
> Actually, I'd prefer if people started using -I/usr/include/ncursesw
> and linking against the wide version of the library instead.
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-05/msg00465.html
>
> People seem to have had success compiling Mutt with ncursesw:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=124
>
> Are ncursesw versions of Vim and Mutt imminent? Or is it not going to
> happen anytime soon?
Thanks for the heads up. I'll build the next release of vim (there's
a 7.3 release coming soon) against ncursesw.
Corinna
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