LANG env var

[Bob Rossi]

Hi,

Does anyone know if ncurses looks at and uses the LANG environment
variable?

I have someone reporting this:
  I was wondering if it would be hard to fix cgdb to work better
  with a UTF-8 code page.  My locale is "en_US.UTF-8" and when I
  run cgdb the source file on the top half has a ~� at the left
  instead of just a ~.  Not a big deal, but I was just curious
  about it.

Should the curses applications be dealing with this problem? or is it an
ncurses/terminal problem like the TERM env var is?

Thanks,
Bob Rossi