Subject: Re: [sup-talk] Still having wide character issues on OS X

From: kardan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:48:35 +0000 (UTC)

greetings,

Richard Sandilands <richard <at> infoarts.info> writes:

> I'm tracking the next branch of Sup and it's working beautifully.
> However I still can't work out how to get wide character support  in
> OS X (Snow Leopard).
> 
> I've tried installing the ncursesw gem but the installation fails:
> 
> ***
> Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
> necessary libraries and/or headers.
> checking for wmove() in -lncursesw... no
> checking for wmove() in -lpdcurses... no
> ***
 
for debian squeeze / ubuntu lucid the following steps were necessary:

# apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev
$ mkdir $HOME/.sup

full dependency list:
ruby="rake rubygems libopenssl-ruby libdevel-logger-ruby libtrollop-ruby
libgettext-ruby-util liblockfile-ruby libmime-types-ruby "
ruby18="librmail-ruby1.8 libxapian-ruby1.8"
ncurses="libncurses-ruby libncursesw5-dev libncurses5-dev"

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From: Richard Sandilands <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 10:54:18 +1100

Hi there

***

I'd love to get this working. Is there anyone out there on OS X that
has solved the wide character issue and would be able to provide step
by step instructions on getting it working?

Many thanks

-- 
Richard