Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

curses.textpad does not support UTF-8/Unicode characters, they are silently ignored when editing.

It would be useful to add support for Unicode characters.

Minimal reproducible code: Type š into the editing textbox and observe nothing happens.

import curses.textpad
import atexit
atexit.register(curses.endwin)
w = curses.initscr()
curses.noecho()
curses.textpad.Textbox(w).edit()

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

No response

Linked PRs

• gh-133031: Support non-ASCII characters in curses.textpad.Textbox #152451
• [3.15] gh-133031: Support non-ASCII characters in curses.textpad.Textbox (GH-152451) #152467
• [3.14] gh-133031: Support non-ASCII characters in curses.textpad.Textbox (GH-152451) #152468
• [3.13] gh-133031: Support non-ASCII characters in curses.textpad.Textbox (GH-152451) #152469
• gh-133031: Support the full Unicode range in curses.textpad.Textbox #152482
• gh-133031: Fix test_textbox_edit_wide on a narrow build #152592
• gh-133031: Fix test_textbox_unicode on a narrow build #152750