Problem with curses and UTF-8

[Thomas Dickey]

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> I'll test it if someone would dumb down "link with ncursesw instead of
>> ncurses" a little for me.
>> 
>> I tried:
>> ./configure --with-libs="ncursesw5"
>> 
>> and it failed saying:
>> checking size of wchar_t... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof
>> (wchar_t), 77

> If that was Python's configure: don't do that. Instead, hack setup.py

yes - python's configure script needs a lot of work
(alternatively, it is not the sort of script I would write).

> to make it change the compiler/linker settings, or even edit the
> compiler/linker line manually at first.

that works

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