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Date:      Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:16:40 -0400
From:      "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com>
To:        Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Updating ncurses in base
Message-ID:  <20060625221640.GI48766@linwhf.opal.com>
In-Reply-To: <6eb82e0606091906j7d9f69aarcf1f9738c7565677@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6eb82e0606091906j7d9f69aarcf1f9738c7565677@mail.gmail.com>

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On Jun 09, 22:06, Rong-en Fan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As you may know, the current ncurses in the base system is rather old
> (it is 4 years old). I have been working on updating ncurses to the latest
> version 5.5 and enable wide character as default. I have put the 
> description,
> goal, issues, current status, and tarball for test at the following URL:
> 
> http://www.rafan.org/FreeBSD/ncurses/
> 


I have some notes about Unicode support on FreeBSD here:

http://opal.com/freebsd/unicode.html

put together about 9-12 months or so ago.  Those notes discuss
how to enable wide-character support for various libraries, system
tools and ports.

Any work to make the base ncurses have wide-character support
will simplify life a lot as this stuff needs to be redone after
every system or ports upgrade.

	-jr




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