From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2008-11-02T07:55:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Roguelike project?

On 01/11/2008, Nit Khair <sentinel.2001@gmx.com> wrote:
> Michal Suchanek wrote:
>  > On 30/10/2008, Tim Mcd <tmcdowell@gmail.com> wrote:
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>  >>
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> > 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.
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> > 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.

Thanks

Michal