Re: Line Drawing and Unicode

[William McBrine]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Christ, Bryan wrote:

> I would like to do some line-drawing on the Linux console, but when in 
> unicode mode, the ACS_ characters don't show up (blank spaces and such 
> where the lines should be).  How can I do line drawing WITHOUT linking 
> against ncursesw and using the wide functions?

My experience (with Ubuntu at least) is that, in fact, you can't. However, 
I _can_ link to ncursesw and still use the narrow functions, and it works 
correctly then (within the limits of the console's limited character set), 
as long as I've called setlocale().

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William McBrine <address@hidden>