For } and ] key presses, getch() always returns 0

[nathan-gilbert]

I am working with Python 3.7 and on macOS/Linux the python curses library handles these keys correctly but on Windows using this library pressing either ] or Shift-] (to get }) the getch() method always returns 0. I've tried get_wchr and get_str as well to the same effect.

[ibondar-altilan]

I have the same effect with Python 3.10 under Windows 10. Furthermore, pressing (') - apostrophe key - always returns int 530.

[bartbroere]

I'm also experiencing this issue. The windows-curses project depends on PDCurses.
That means that the solution should be contributed to that project as well.
Simply updating to a newer version of PDCurses will not offer a solution I think, since I looked at the diff and not a lot has changed.

My best guess would be to start looking around here:
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/PDCurses/blob/2e15c90f122fef329b83a4c3c011f192d97ec516/wincon/pdckbd.c

Probably somewhere next week I could look into this, submit a PR to PDCurses, and bump the submodule here as well. If anyone else has time before that, feel free to get started of course.

[asottile]

this seems to have regressed between windows-curses 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 -- an easy reproduction is by trying to type either a ' or } in my text editor as reported here: asottile/babi#295 (comment)

[bartbroere]

Thanks @asottile. This information helped me fix this in visidata.

[isosphere]

pip install windows-curses==2.3.0

Resolved this problem for me - however, wheels for that version are only available for Python 3.10 and lower; that might be an issue for some folks.

See saulpw/visidata#2119 (comment) for some troubleshooting about this, including encoding/locale settings.