Bug 2043798

Summary: Please enable wide character support available in perl-Curses
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bill Yodlowsky <byodlows>
Component: perl-Curses-UIAssignee: Petr Pisar <ppisar>
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Version: 34CC: david.hannequin, emmanuel, perl-devel, ppisar
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Last Closed: 2022-05-13 08:28:50 UTC Type: Feature Request
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Adds a find/sed line to the specfile to enable UTF-8 none

Description Bill Yodlowsky 2022-01-22 02:05:19 UTC 
Created attachment 1852640 [details]
Adds a find/sed line to the specfile to enable UTF-8

Description of problem:

UTF-8 fails to render properly in Curses::UI widgets, but as noted in the last comment here:

- https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=56695

perl-Curses-1.29 and later support this properly, and to use it, we just need to patch Curses::UI with s/getch/getchar/g and s/addstr/addstring/g

In testing, that does indeed appear to make everything work as desired, so I've enclosed a diff that could be added to the spec file.  It literally just adds this line after the existing find(1):

find -name '*.pm' -exec sed -i -e 's/addstr/addstring/g' -e 's/getch/getchar/g' {} +

Thanks in advance.
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Comment 2 Petr Pisar 2022-05-13 08:16:07 UTC 
It definitely makes sense. Fedora defaults to UTF-8 locale and all the software should work in that environment. I'm going to patch perl-Curses-UI in Rawhide.