From 7b22ee81f25364ea58a09fda21e95ad9315c1aee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Griffith Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:30:07 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add mention of Unicode by way of UTF-8 in INSTALL. --- INSTALL | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 4af9b33..6f5ea45 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ run Frotz: * A POSIX-compliant version of make (GNU make will do) * A reasonably good SYSV derived curses library (ncurses is best) +For Unicode support by way of UTF-8, libncursesw is required. Unicode +support can be disabled in the Makefile by commenting out this line: + USE_UTF8 ?= yes + For sound support, a few more things are necessary: * libao (1.1.0 or higher) * libmodplug (0.8.8.4 or higher) @@ -202,6 +206,11 @@ notices you don't have a config file of your own in "$HOME/.frotzrc". Platform-specific issues || =========================== +Unicode character support: +Currently, only libncursesw is known to fully provide Unicode support by +way of UTF-8 character encoding. At the moment, it's not clear if BSD +curses does the job all the way. + Linux: No apparent problems. [Net|Open|Free]BSD: If you have NetBSD 1.6.x or later, you can use the -- 2.34.1