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On Jun  7 11:23, Michael Ludwig wrote:
> The wide-character ncursesw was announced in January:
> 
>   This is the first official release of ncurses compiled to support wide
>   characters, and can be installed simultaineously with the "narrow"
>   ncurses package(s).
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-announce AT cygwin DOT com/msg03179.html
> 
> It sounds like Unicode is the preferred way now:
> 
>   Actually, I'd prefer if people started using -I/usr/include/ncursesw
>   and linking against the wide version of the library instead.
> 
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-05/msg00465.html
> 
> People seem to have had success compiling Mutt with ncursesw:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=124
> 
> Are ncursesw versions of Vim and Mutt imminent? Or is it not going to
> happen anytime soon?

Thanks for the heads up.  I'll build the next release of vim (there's
a 7.3 release coming soon) against ncursesw.


Corinna

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