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From: Fernando Canizo <conan@××××××××××.ar>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] recompiling vim linked to libncursesw
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:09:23
Message-Id: 20050727111105.GD30402@lugmen.org.ar
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] recompiling vim linked to libncursesw by Thomas Dickey
1 El Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 05:59:53AM -0400, Thomas Dickey me decía:
2 > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:12:23AM -0300, Fernando Canizo wrote:
3 > > Hi all.
4 > >
5 > > I'm having trouble with my encoding using mutt + vim + utf-8,
6 > > basically mi emails are sent with wrong encoding when *replying*. I've
7 > > tracked the problem, searched, readed FAQs and i found that maybe my
8 > > problem is this: that while mutt is linked to libncursesw (wide
9 > > library) vim is to libncurses (normal), this is the output of ldd:
10 >
11 > It won't matter for vim. vim is a termcap application, and is doing the
12 > interpretation of locales by itself. The distinction between ncurses and
13 > ncursesw only applies to curses applications. (ncurses provides low-level
14 > interfaces for termcap and terminfo applications).
15
16 But vim is linked against libncurses, doesn't make it a 'curses
17 application' ?
18
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20 Fernando Canizo - LUGMen: www.lugmen.org.ar - A8N: a8n.lugmen.org.ar
21 QOTD:
22 "There may be no excuse for laziness, but I'm sure looking."
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Re: [gentoo-user] recompiling vim linked to libncursesw Thomas Dickey <dickey@×××××.net>