aspell, Unicode support and ncurses

[Dennis Veatch]

I was looking through the compile log of aspell and saw this entry ;

configure: WARNING: Aspell will not be able to Display UTF-8 characters 
correctly.

Some digging around I find ;

http://aspell.sourceforge.net/man-html/Curses-Notes.html

that talks about a "wide" version of ncusres and the "mblen function" being 
enabled in the system. I looked in /usr/include/stdlib.h and if I read it 
correctly it seems to be so ;

__BEGIN_NAMESPACE_STD
/* Return the length of the multibyte character
   in S, which is no longer than N.  */
extern int mblen (__const char *__s, size_t __n) __THROW;


So my question(s) are,

has anyone tried compiling ncurses with "--enable-widec"? Will this really 
hose up all sorts of things that depend on ncurses? Not sure why that would 
happen as it appears to create a separate library, ie libcursesw along with 
it's normal library. I am aware of the warning in the ncurses BUILD and not 
proposing it be moved. Well, not proposing anything really, just asking 
questions.

On a side note the "--enable-colorfgbg" for ncurses looks interesting.