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Amend curses docs by info how to write non-ascii characters.

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Thanks to Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven.
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Georg Brandl 2008-01-19 10:16:09 +00:00
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@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ for DOS, OS/2, and possibly other systems as well. This extension module is
designed to match the API of ncurses, an open-source curses library hosted on
Linux and the BSD variants of Unix.
.. note::
Since version 5.4, the ncurses library decides how to interpret non-ASCII data
using the ``nl_langinfo`` function. That means that you have to call
:func:`locale.setlocale` in the application and use one of the system's
available encodings to encode Unicode strings with it. This example uses the
system's default encoding::
import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
code = locale.getpreferredencoding()
Then use *code* as the encoding for :meth:`str.encode` calls.
.. seealso::