Re: Setting background to non-ASCII characters can affect addwstr

[Mike Gran]

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 05:02 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:14:09PM -0700, Mike Gran wrote:
> > It seems that if I set the background character using bkgrnd to a
> > non-ASCII character, it can cause calls to addwstr to not print all of
> > the characters in the string.

> That seems to be working, for me (5.7.20091003), since I see the whole
> string.  Attaching a trace
> 

Indeed.  It appears that on this Fedora box, there was a 5.6.20080927
version of libncursesw hiding in the /lib directory, and it was linking
to that instead of the intended recent /usr/lib version.  A modern
version of curses solves my problem.

Sorry for the noise.

-Mike