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Author inigoserna
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Date 2009-08-21.11:43:29
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Currently,there is no a simple way in curses bindings to get the code
associated with a key press of non ascii keystroke (f.e. ç) in terminals
configured with UTF-8 encoding. 

getch returns the code for a wide character byte a byte.
But ncurses library has a proper function to do it: get_wch.

Patch against Python v2.6.2 to provide this missing get_wch method
in the ncurses bindings.

Include a test example and a patch to the documentation as well.

More info and a partial solution without patching python curses module
on this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/67dce30f0a2742a6?fwc=2
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2009-08-21 11:43:32inigosernasetrecipients: + inigoserna
2009-08-21 11:43:32inigosernasetmessageid: <1250855012.37.0.745791721367.issue6755@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-08-21 11:43:30inigosernalinkissue6755 messages
2009-08-21 11:43:29inigosernacreate