[arch-dev-public] ncurses todo list?

[Allan McRae]

Allan McRae wrote:
> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Allan McRae 
>> <allan.mcrae at qimr.edu.au> wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Does anybody have a ncurses build list?  I am building ncurses with 
>>> only the
>>> wide-character libraries which should hopefully clear up a few of 
>>> the locale
>>> issues with applications using it (e.g. FS#4418, FS#6384, FS#9872).  
>>> The
>>> current situation is sort of between doing this and not (we have 
>>> only the
>>> wide character include files but both libraries).
>>>
>>> After some initial problems (don't install an ncurses without a real
>>> libncurses.so before fixing readline & bash!), I have this up and 
>>> working
>>> and most of the needed core rebuilds done.  I'm thinking I will push 
>>> it to a
>>> separate repo first so that I can get some testing of this by people 
>>> with
>>> other locales before I push it to [testing].
>>>     
>>
>> Are you sure this actually fixes these issues? I suggested the same
>> thing a while back, but Roman pointed out something regarding Cyrillic
>> chars or something... I don't know the details, but it had to do with
>> the fact that not all locales are really UTF friendly.
>>
>>   
>
> So I see....  (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4418#comment14208).  Am 
> I 100% percent sure? No.  But I am quite confident (say 97%). From 
> what I have read wide-character libraries work with both multibyte and 
> 8-bit locales, while normal libraries work only in 8-bit locales.  
> Anyway, that niggling 3% is why I don't want to push it directly to 
> testing....

So I am now running a fully ncursesw system here and I have no 
problems.  I tested with a couple ISO-8859-n locales and all seems well.

Does anybody have a good test case for something that was broken with 
the old ncurses?  Most of what I could find by searching in the bug 
tracker appears to have been fixed by building against the ncursesw 
libraries already.  I can dump a tarball containing the rebuilt core 
packages (and probably screen and lynx) if people would like to test 
these in a chroot.

Allan