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Python 3.12 dropped ncurses wide char support on macOS, so for example curses.get_wch()
is not available anymore.
I believe this was an unintended consequence of #94452, because the change is not documented anywhere. After that PR, HAVE_NCURSESW is never defined on Darwin. It looks like this bit of logic was not ported from setup.py to configure.ac:
Lines 1121 to 1124 in ec5e253
In fact, wide char support is always available when using Apple-provided ncurses, and it used to work correctly in the 3.11 builds that I tested.
@tiran can you confirm that this was unintended?
cc @sobolevn who interpreted this as an intended change in python/typeshed#10808.
CPython versions tested on:
3.12, 3.13
Operating systems tested on:
macOS
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