Re: utf8 patch for mc, slang 2 version

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 09:45 +1200, Bart Oldeman wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 07:14:41PM +0200, Tomasz K?oczko wrote:
> > >
> > > > BTW: anyone is working on UFT-8 support for ncurses(w) backend ?
> > >
> > > I don't think so, and I don't think it is worth it. Maintaining two backends
> > > IMHO just causes headaches while it doesn't make mc better. I still can't
> > > see why developers do not decide which one to use and drop the other one.
> >
> > Maybe compatibility with older UN*Xes with curses but no slang?
>
> It's a bogus argument.  UNIX curses was removed long ago, and it had
> never worked well anyway.  I don't remember a single person complaining.
> Besides, S-Lang is included with mc and it's quite portable.

We had that argument once already. curses is not that old and it is
standard. And it has unicode support. Its just a matter of using it.