Re: Ncurses and wide-char/UTF-8

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Pierre wrote:

> > It wouldn't be easy - would require a lot of duplication of scripting
> > (or rethinking how the makefiles are setup).  Note that curses.h is
> > different (a superset, but still different), so it would have to generate
> > includes into a different location, the *.awk scripts would be rewritten
> > to provide various flavors, etc.
>
> Or maybe it could produce a ncursesw.h ?

I don't want to do that because it complicates the application's includes.
Handling
        #include <curses.h>
or
        #include <ncurses/curses.h>
or
        #include <ncursesw/curses.h>
provides enough flexibility.

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