Re: [Nano-devel] Wide character support.

[David Benbennick]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:41:30PM -0500, David Benbennick wrote:
> To make it work:
> 
> 1) Get the newest Ncurses, configure it with --enable-widec, and install.
> 
> 2) Apply nano.patch and utf8.patch.
> 
> 3) In the Makefile, replace
>       -lncurses
>    with
>       -lncursesw
> Also, you might have to use the -L flag if you didn't install
> libncursesw.so in a standard place.
> 
> 4) Set the locale to something reflecting the type of file you are
> opening.  This is how Nano knows the multi-byte character set.  I use
>     export LANG=en_US.utf8

One more thing:

5) Use a terminal that knows about your character set.  Nano will display
the file correctly only if cat does too.  With UTF-8, I use

xterm -u8 -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1

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