On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 02:19:35PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:18:17AM +0100, Julian Coleman wrote:
> > A fix seems to be to add _CTYPE_SW1, for the additional characters (as per
> > appended patch), but I was wondering why these characters do not already
> > have width information.
> 
> I don't think this is correct. The default locale is effectively ASCII
> and that covers only the first 128 chars.

The default probably ought to be 8859-1

> What is a bit disturbing for
> me is that curses doesn't seem to check for printability.

The texts all come from the message file - so are known to be printable.

	David

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