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Expand Up @@ -27,20 +27,6 @@ Linux and the BSD variants of Unix.
Whenever the documentation mentions a *character string* it can be specified
as a Unicode string or a byte string.

.. note::

Since version 5.4, the ncurses library decides how to interpret non-ASCII data
using the ``nl_langinfo`` function. That means that you have to call
:func:`locale.setlocale` in the application and encode Unicode strings
using one of the system's available encodings. This example uses the
system's default encoding::

import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
code = locale.getpreferredencoding()

Then use *code* as the encoding for :meth:`str.encode` calls.

.. seealso::

Module :mod:`curses.ascii`
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