wide chars functions don't work

[Gerhard Häring]

Hello,

I begin to wonder if anybody ever has actually used the wide character
functions in ncurses ...

I have found zero actual code using them. This is what I've tried:

#include "ncursesw/ncurses.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    initscr();
    curs_set(0);

    getch();
    
    addwstr(L"hallo");
    refresh();
    getch();

    curs_set(1);
    endwin();

    return 0;
}

Now, are these functions actually implemented in ncurses? As far as I
can see in ddd, the wstr functions/macros keep calling themselves
recursively.

(In the end, I want to use these functions from Python)

Is this a bug?

Gerhard

PS: This seems to be somewhat broken on plain Solaris curses, too.
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reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))