Re: [Help-nano] UTF-8 support was requested, but insufficient UTF-8 support was detected

[Leonhard Küper]

Nevermind, I figured it out.

I needed the package libncursesw5-dev and not libncurses5-dev.

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:27:52 +0100
Leonhard Küper <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 
> I am trying to get the Nano version 2.7.5 on my Ubuntu 16.10 computer. 
> Because I could not find a package I tried to compile it myself. But if I run
> ./configure --enable-utf8
> I get the following error Message:
> 
> configure: error: 
> *** UTF-8 support was requested, but insufficient UTF-8 support was
> *** detected in your curses and/or C libraries.  Please verify that your
> *** slang was built with UTF-8 support or your curses was built with
> *** wide character support, and that your C library was built with wide
> *** character support.
> 
> Well, I have installed libncurses5-dev and libslang2-dev but I don't know how 
> to check for wide character support / UTF-8 support. Can someone please help?
> 
> 
> Regards
> Leonhard