From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2007-12-14T10:26:03+09:00
Subject: multibyte characters in curses

Hello,

Perhaps it would be better to send this to core: This is a
proof-of-concept patch showing the use of multibyte characters in
curses.

It works for me. However, it requires utf-8 (or other multibyte)
locale, ncursesw library, and setting the locale properly in the ruby
interpreter.

In other words, it requires
1) locale to be set for the interpreter (which is apparently not done
for 1.8 now)
2) that the multibyte strings printed match the locale set

I would also suggest including something like ruby-terminfo which
allows access to the terminfo database. This allows for simple and
portable use of multibyte strings - to add attribute to a character
the corresponding terminal capability string is printed before the
character. This should work with most curses, even those that cannot
print multibyte characters themselves.

Thanks

Michal