Re: Can't convert control characters

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 10:38:29PM +0900, Mitsuru Chinen wrote:
> Dear ncurses maintainer,
> 
> It seems that control characters (such as BS, LF) can not be converted
> to complex characters. Attached source reproduces the problem.
> I would appreciate it if you could look at it.
> 
> My environment is
>  version : ncurses-5.3 with patches by 2003-05-17 
>   config : --with-shared --without-cxx --without-ada --enable-widec
>    OS    : SuSE Linux 8.1 (kernel-2.4.19, glibc-2.2.5)

thanks - will look.  offhand, it seems that the problem is that glibc
treats wcslen() on 8-bit characters as an error.  (I believe this is
a glibc bug, but am resigned to working around those).

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