On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach / centrum.cz> wrote: > On 01/11/2008, Nit Khair <sentinel.2001 / gmx.com> wrote: >> Michal Suchanek wrote: >> > On 30/10/2008, Tim Mcd <tmcdowell / gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> > There's one downside to ncurses in Ruby - they do not support >> > multibyte characters. So your internationalization possibilities are >> > limited, and so are things like PC names. >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > Thanks >> > >> > Michal >> >> Has anyone here used or played about with "slang" / s-lang. Would that >> be better in this respect? I don't believe anyone has written a ruby >> binding. >> >> What is the work involved to get ncurses-ruby MB enabled ? Is the >> problem at the ruby end, or the ncurses end or the binding ? >> > > It's at the Ruby end. 1.8 does not work with locale but ncurses seems > to use locale to determine encoding. Also ruby does not use ncursesw > when they are available. > > 1.9 could work but the extension would probably have to be updated to > at least link against ncursesw - at least that is how it worked for > me. Could we use the new Ruby FFI to spare us the C mess?