<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Problem:<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Python 2.7.6 and Python 3.2.3 Curses Modules do not properly handle 256-color palette.</div><div><br></div><div>Symptoms:</div><div><ol><li>I have installed my application on Linux (Fedora 20 and Ubuntu 12.04), Mac OS X (10.7.5 and 10.9.1) and Windows 7 (after installing Cygwin).</li><li>My application properly displays normal 8-color palette with xterm and xterm-color.</li><li>My application defines, generates and properly displays 16-color palette for xterm-16color.</li><li>My application defines, generates but fails to display 71-color palette for xterm-88color. It displays wrong colors and is marred by various artifacts (lines) despite host terminals (Fedora 20 and Mac OS 10.9) that had been released with default to xterm-256-color.</li><li>My application defines, generates but fails to display 140-color palette for and xterm-256color. It displays wrong colors and is marred by various artifacts (lines) despite host terminals (Fedora 20 and Mac OS 10.9) that had been released with default to xterm-256-color.</li></ol><div>I suspect that wide (Unicode) characters are not being supported.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Any suggestions?</div><div><br></div><div>Richard S. Gordon</div></body></html>