Re: Line Drawing and Unicode

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:10:35PM -0500, William McBrine wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, I wrote:
> 
> > 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().
> 
> P.S. To clarify, with _either_ the wide or narrow library, when the 
> console is in Unicode mode, you have to call setlocale() to get anything 
> (even pluses and minuses). Otherwise you just get garbage.

agree.

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