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diff --git a/crawl-ref/INSTALL b/crawl-ref/INSTALL index c962fd36c6..4114224a28 100644 --- a/crawl-ref/INSTALL +++ b/crawl-ref/INSTALL @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Crawl can be built with some optional features: * Sounds * Regular expressions * Lua support +* Unicode characters for the map (Unix only). Crawl Stone Soup also uses a level compiler to compile special level definitions; to make changes to the level compiler, you'll need the @@ -76,6 +77,11 @@ on some Unixes. flex and bison are optional but highly recommended. Recent versions of byacc are also fine (edit your makefile appropriately). +If you have ncursesw and the development headers (usually in the +/usr/include/ncursesw directory) you can build Crawl with support for +Unicode display characters in the map by setting UNICODE_GLYPHS = y +in makefile.unix. + Building: * cd to the source directory (you can safely ignore the dolinks.sh and @@ -339,3 +345,22 @@ http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/pcre.htm On DOS you get the joy of building PCRE yourself. It's a little more annoying than building Lua (you have to roll your own makefile), but not by much. + + +Unicode +------- + +Modern Unixes may support Unicode terminals (particularly xterms). If +you have a terminal that can display Unicode characters, and an +ncurses library that can handle Unicode (libncursesw, and its devel +headers), you can build Crawl to display Unicode in the map: set +UNICODE_GLYPHS = y in makefile.unix. + +NOTE: You may have libncursesw, but not have the header files; check +that you have the header files installed as well, or you'll get a lot +of errors. Crawl expects the ncursesw headers to be in +/usr/include/ncursesw. + +After compiling Crawl with Unicode support, you still need to add the +line "char_set = unicode" in your .crawlrc to tell Crawl to use +Unicode.
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