gh-152503: Fix garbage text from curses wide-character cell reads#152505
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window.in_wch(), window.in_wchstr() and window.getbkgrnd() read a cell into an uninitialized cchar_t, relying on the curses library to leave the text NUL-terminated -- which ncurses does but X/Open does not require, so some libraries (such as NetBSD curses) returned uninitialized bytes as wide characters. Zero-initialize the cell buffers before the read and default the getcchar() output to an empty string. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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window.in_wch(),window.in_wchstr()andwindow.getbkgrnd()read a cell into an uninitializedcchar_tand rely on the curses library leaving the text NUL-terminated — which ncurses does but X/Open does not require, so libraries such as NetBSD curses returned uninitialized bytes as wide characters (surfacing asValueErrorfor out-of-range code points).Zero-initialize the cell buffers before the read (
in_wch,getbkgrnd,in_wchstr) and default thegetcchar()output to an empty string, sincegetcchar()need not write the text of an empty cell.No-op on ncurses;
test_curseskeeps passing and stays refleak-clean.🤖 Generated with Claude Code