Re: Setting background to non-ASCII characters can affect addwstr

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Mike Gran wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 05:02 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:14:09PM -0700, Mike Gran wrote:
> > > It seems that if I set the background character using bkgrnd to a
> > > non-ASCII character, it can cause calls to addwstr to not print all of
> > > the characters in the string.
>
> > That seems to be working, for me (5.7.20091003), since I see the whole
> > string.  Attaching a trace
>
> Indeed.  It appears that on this Fedora box, there was a 5.6.20080927
> version of libncursesw hiding in the /lib directory, and it was linking
> to that instead of the intended recent /usr/lib version.  A modern
> version of curses solves my problem.

no problem (report bugs - I didn't overlook the other...)

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