[STFL] 8-bit input problems

[Mark Eichin]

Using both Ubuntu Gutsy (python-stfl 0.15-3) and Debian unstable
(python-stfl 0.17-1) I still get the behaviour described in the
archives here, where if I type M-f (or any explicit alt char) it goes
back to read() and does nothing until I type a backspace (well, DEL
really, but stfl.run reports it as BACKSPACE) at which point I get a
TIMEOUT event.

Suggestions for diagnosing this further?  It looks like it's linked
against libncursesw5 5.6+20070716-1ubuntu3 on gutsy, 5.6+20071013-1 on
Debian; no LC_* or LANG settings in the environment, though
/etc/default/locale says LANG="en_US.UTF-8".

The archives talked about calling setlocale (which I tried, though I'd
expect the bindings to do that automatically, and in any case it
didn't help) and stfl_ipool_create (which I can't, but it looks like
swig/basedecls.i does for me...)

I'm not actually concerned about them working -- though that would be
nice, at this point I just want a typo (or emacs-user reflex :-) to
not hang the program.