Is the Python binding for ncurses unicode capable?

[bmcnally]

I can't tell from the documentation, but I'd like to try and print
unicode characters through Python's binding to ncurses. From reading
the documentation on the curses module, it doesn't appear that this is
possible:

http://python.org/doc/2.4.2/lib/module-curses.html

Am I missing something, or is the binding only capable of ASCII?

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

I can't tell from the documentation, but I'd like to try and print
unicode characters through Python's binding to ncurses. From reading
the documentation on the curses module, it doesn't appear that this is
possible:

http://python.org/doc/2.4.2/lib/module-curses.html

Am I missing something, or is the binding only capable of ASCII?

Neither, nor. There isn't any ncurses API for Unicode - just API
for "wide characters" (wchar_t); Python doesn't use this API.
That doesn't mean it's restricted to ASCII. If your terminal
supports UTF-8, you can output UTF-8 just fine to it, using
Python. Just encode the Unicode strings as UTF-8.

Regards,
Martin