Re: Assignment changes on savannah

[Marco Gerards]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 04:35:49PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > Marcus, what do you want to see changed to the ncurses driver?  I've
> > reassigned this task to myself and will do what is required (if it
> > makes sense to me ofcourse).
> 
> What part of the description is not clear?  Beside ncursesw there needs to
> be a new console client driver for ncurses (without the w) that does not
> rely on the unicode features of ncursesw but does its own conversion.

The 'w' part was not clear to me. It is now. Why can't we just use
ncursesw, IOW why is it a good thing to have a ncurses driver while
there is an ncurses driver?
 
> At least this is what I remember would be necessary to make output on
> non-unicode terminals correct for the character set available on such
> terminals.  ncursesw does not do its own conversion if required.

Ok.

Thanks,
Marco