Bug 242583

Summary: Link curses module with ncursesw.so
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz>
Component: pythonAssignee: James Antill <james.antill>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 7CC: inigoserna, katzj
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Description Guillaume Chazarain 2007-06-04 22:04:53 UTC 
Description of problem:

The curses module in Python-2.5 handles UTF-8 more gracefully if linked with
ncursesw. For more information, see:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/patches/2006-February/018840.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-February/366356.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Python-2.5
Comment 1 Guillaume Chazarain 2007-06-04 22:04:53 UTC 
Created attachment 156142 [details]
Untested, suggested fix
Comment 2 Iñigo Serna 2007-08-16 20:01:05 UTC 
Hi all,

I've reported this same issue this morning in #fedora-python and they told me to
open a wishlist bug report, but as I can see, I'm not the only one here.

This is also related to bug #250782.

Please, fix this before F8, as it's quite easy.

Thanks,
Iñigo Serna
Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2007-08-17 00:55:46 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246385 ***