From my point of view this can only come from a poor usage of ncurses, if it would nbe ncurses itself, my programs would also have troubles (but they don't). Perhaps there is another layer of software on top of ncurses and that one is not correctly written? Or are this tools not using ncurses and doing everything "manually"? -> This is a many years persisting issue and shows that even Leap (many years after UTF8 introduction) is not tested well in this
Hello. I do not want to start a discussion here about advantages/disadvantages of one or the other encoding (ISO-8859-1, UTF8, ...) and/or why I should use UTF8. I have good reasons why I don't want to do that and stay with ISO-8859-1, and it also is a question of principle that an OS and all its programs have to correctly (and not mostly) support them. Linux is offering a huge number of different encodings and should be aware of correctly supporting all of them, as it did before UTF8. If not, it is a question of careless coding or implementation. I use still ISO-8859-1 on all of my servers and workstations because of several reasons (and I do not want to change something in this point). Most of my self-written programs are based on ncurses, using the fuill set of features (also windows and window layers). All of the, are working perfectly and are displaying correctly, so I am pretty sure that ncurses and all related libs _are_ correct. So what? I see that many programs (i.e. YaSt in textmode, but also several other tools) are not correctly displaying, they show sometimes 2-Byte characters and distort hereby the output. This happens more on real text screens (i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F1 console) and is slightly better in a graphical "konsole" of KDE, but it happens. point and/or fixed. I watch this phenomen since UTF8 came out. Because I do remote administration often in text mode (ssh or in a few cases even by modem dial in), a properly working handling of encodings has to work. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org