Re: extended ASCII characters do not show up

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Rajat Das wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is what I tried.
>
> I installed ncurses with the following configuration
> ./configure --with-shared --without-normal --without-debug --with-trace 
> --enable-widec
>
> I then tried the following test program.

  #include  <locale.h>

> #include  <ncurses.h>
>
> int main()
> {
>  WINDOW * win;

   setlocale(LC_ALL, "");

>  initscr();
>  win = newwin(10,10,10,10);
>  box(win,0,0);
>  wrefresh(win);
>  endwin();
>
> }
>
> I did not use the _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED definition as I was not sure where 
> exactly to define it.
> I compiled the program thus:
>
> gcc box.c -lncursesw
>
> I ran the program from a linux console. I got no output at all ie. no box on 
> the screen. I then
> recompiled with the regular library thus:

With the changes noted above (and if $TERM is "linux"), you should see 
lines.

> gcc box.c -lncurses
>
> This time I got a box with dashed lines(with + and - characters), something like
>
> +----+
> |    |
> +----+
>
>
>
>
>
> "Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark." - Tagore

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