gh-133031: Support non-ASCII characters in curses.textpad.Textbox#152451
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Textbox mangled non-ASCII characters of an 8-bit locale encoding: it masked reads with curses.ascii.ascii(), which clears the 8th bit, and tested input with curses.ascii.isprint(), which rejects bytes above 127. Decode cells and input bytes with the window's encoding instead. Cells are read with instr() and the lower-right cell is written as text, since inch() and insch() with an int byte mishandle a non-ASCII character on a wide build. This uses only the byte-oriented curses API, so it works without wide-character support. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…box (GH-152451) (GH-152468) Textbox mangled non-ASCII characters of an 8-bit locale encoding: it masked reads with curses.ascii.ascii(), which clears the 8th bit, and tested input with curses.ascii.isprint(), which rejects bytes above 127. Decode cells and input bytes with the window's encoding instead. Cells are read with instr() and the lower-right cell is written as text, since inch() and insch() with an int byte mishandle a non-ASCII character on a wide build. This uses only the byte-oriented curses API, so it works without wide-character support. (cherry picked from commit c253f0c) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…box (GH-152451) (GH-152469) Textbox mangled non-ASCII characters of an 8-bit locale encoding: it masked reads with curses.ascii.ascii(), which clears the 8th bit, and tested input with curses.ascii.isprint(), which rejects bytes above 127. Decode cells and input bytes with the window's encoding instead. Cells are read with instr() and the lower-right cell is written as text, since inch() and insch() with an int byte mishandle a non-ASCII character on a wide build. This uses only the byte-oriented curses API, so it works without wide-character support. (cherry picked from commit c253f0c) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…box (GH-152451) (GH-152467) Textbox mangled non-ASCII characters of an 8-bit locale encoding: it masked reads with curses.ascii.ascii(), which clears the 8th bit, and tested input with curses.ascii.isprint(), which rejects bytes above 127. Decode cells and input bytes with the window's encoding instead. Cells are read with instr() and the lower-right cell is written as text, since inch() and insch() with an int byte mishandle a non-ASCII character on a wide build. This uses only the byte-oriented curses API, so it works without wide-character support. (cherry picked from commit c253f0c) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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curses.textpad.Textboxmangled non-ASCII characters of an 8-bit locale encoding: it masked reads withcurses.ascii.ascii(), which clears the 8th bit, and tested input withcurses.ascii.isprint(), which rejects bytes above 127.It now decodes cells and input bytes with the window's encoding. Cells are read with
instr()and the lower-right cell is written as text, sinceinch()andinsch()with an int byte mishandle a non-ASCII character on a wide build. This uses only the byte-oriented curses API, so it works without wide-character support.A follow-up will add full Unicode (wide-character) support on top of this.