Re: Wanted: ncurses & utf-8 string library

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 18:18 +0000, David Given wrote:
> I've had a hunt around, and I know such things exist, but trying to find which
> one's better is rather harder, so I thought I'd ask.
> 
> I'm looking for a UTF-8 string library, preferably a drop in for 'string', and
> also a set of ncurses Lua bindings. I'd particularly like them to work
> together so I can display Unicode characters via ncurses. Can anyone suggest
> something that works well?

I am also interested in a nicely integrated UTF-8 library, along with
iconv-like functionality.

Also, I'm begging for somebody to produce a nice ncurses binding.  Every
time I look into doing it, ncurses's API makes my eyes bleed.

B.