From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2007-12-30T07:55:08+09:00
Subject: Re: locale in ruby

On 29/12/2007, Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org> wrote:
> In article <a5d587fb0712281659v4fc834dbscf0a474075aa18de@mail.gmail.com>,
>   "Michal Suchanek" <hramrach@centrum.cz> writes:
>
> > I tried to make the curses extension work with utf-8. It is possible
> > but it requires setting locale properly which Ruby currently does not
> > do. It also requires ncursesw but these are typically available on
> > systems that do multibyte terminal IO.
>
> Ruby 1.9 invokes setlocale at beginning of main.

Yes, I see.

It's been checked in on Dec 21.

Any chance this could be done for 1.8 as well?

Thanks

Michal