Bug 250782

Summary: curses module lacks unicode support
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Stas Sergeev <stsp2>
Component: pythonAssignee: Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Stas Sergeev 2007-08-03 16:00:22 UTC
Description of problem:
I have a program that is trying to output
the UTF8 multibyte strings via the curses
module of python, and that fails.
I created a simple test-case, it is attached.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-2.5-12.fc7

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run the attached program, it will output
the test string to stdout.
2. Remember that string. It is of 4 symbols.
3. Press Enter. Now the program will output
the same string via the curses module.
4. Note the difference. It is now 8 symbols,
and they are crap.
  
Actual results:
The second string doesn't match the first
string, it is a crap.

Expected results:
Both strings are identical.

Additional info:
AFAIK, the the multibyte strings work
properly only with ncursesw, not with the
plain ncurses. According to an upstream
developer Andrew Kuchling, the curses module
of python-2.5 can be compile-time configured
to use ncursesw and fallback to ncurses if
ncursesw is not available. With strace I've
found out that in F7 it doesn't even try to
load libncursesw.so, loading the libncurses.so
right away.
So presumably, the curses module in F7 is
simply not configured for the unicode support.

Comment 1 Stas Sergeev 2007-08-03 16:00:22 UTC
Created attachment 160623 [details]
test case

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2007-08-24 13:54:23 UTC

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

Comment 3 Stas Sergeev 2007-11-01 21:50:48 UTC
Unconfirmed.
The test-case still fails with
python-2.5.1-15.fc8

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Comment 7 Stas Sergeev 2009-06-10 05:52:07 UTC
The attached test-case still fails. :(
Can someone please reproduce?

Comment 8 Dave Malcolm 2010-02-02 15:44:49 UTC
(looks like I forgot to add this bug ID to the update below; sorry)

python-2.6.2-4.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If
problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update python'.  You can provide
feedback for this update here:
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-0393

Comment 9 Stas Sergeev 2010-02-02 16:00:19 UTC
Not fixed.

Comment 10 Stas Sergeev 2010-02-02 16:00:36 UTC
So reopen.

Comment 11 Stas Sergeev 2010-11-03 16:34:35 UTC
Confirmed to work with python3.
When will it became a default?

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