Bug 242583 - Link curses module with ncursesw.so
Summary: Link curses module with ncursesw.so
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 246385
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: python
Version: 7
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: James Antill
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-06-04 22:04 UTC by Guillaume Chazarain
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2007-08-17 00:55:46 UTC
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Untested, suggested fix (831 bytes, patch)
2007-06-04 22:04 UTC, Guillaume Chazarain 		no flags Details | Diff
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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 ***
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