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Re: Unicode/UTF-8 support (MinTTY) - ncursesw - Mutt, Vim


On 7 June 2010 13:44, Michael Ludwig wrote:
> Andy Koppe schrieb am 07.06.2010 um 12:14:20 (+0100):
>> On 7 June 2010 11:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>> > I'll build the next release of vim (there's a 7.3 release coming
>> > soon) against ncursesw.
>>
>> Probably a good idea anyway, but as far as I can see, vim works fine
>> with UTF-8 already.
>
>> Michael, what are the issues you're seeing with vim? Are you using
>> Cygwin 1.7?
>
> As you say, Vim works fine with UTF-8. It's just that until very
> recently, I've been using the rxvt terminal emulator, which lacks
> Unicode support; so Vim being compiled against ncurses (*without*
> wide characters) was a good match.
>
> Now that I'm switching to the MinTTY terminal, which supports
> Unicode/UTF-8, I need a Vim compiled against ncursesw (*with*
> wide characters) if my assessment of the situation is correct.

If vim works fine with UTF-8 already, what does it matter which
ncurses it's linked against? I don't know vim's internals, but I'd
guess it works without ncursesw because it does its own screen
buffering and displaying, using ncurses only for accessing the
terminfo database.

Andy

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