Re: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Adrian May wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> The attachment shows what mc version 4.6.1 looks like in my cygwin:
>
> $ bash --version
> GNU bash, version 3.2.49(22)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
>
> It's an XP box, evidently with chinese fonts installed. Looks like the old
> dos border-drawing characters are turning into chinese characters and taking
> up less space.

there's no details here about ncurses.

mc may use ncurses.
it also may use ncursesw (there's no details about mc's use of 
ncurses/ncursesw in this comment).
you need ncursesw to display chinese fonts
you also need utf-8 support to make that work.

cygwin (unreleased) may support utf-8
there's no details about which version of cygwin you're using.

In either case, your audience would be the mc-developers or 
cygwin-developers.

...removed the remainder of the comment, since it's nontopical

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