Re: winsch, addch and european characters

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 09:34:12AM +0100, Jean Ribiere wrote:
> I have problems with waddch and winsch with characters > x'07f'
> as european character e acute for instance.
> 
> With ncurses-5.5 (linux, slackware-11.0, KDE)
> if the character is defined by ch='é',

Turning on warnings, I see that gcc tells me the assignment has a
sign-extension problem, which accounts for the reverse-video and
blinking.

> - wadcch adds the character but it appears in reverse video
>   and blinking
> - winsch does nothing
> if the character is defined by a wgetch :
> - waddch is ok
> - winsch does nothing

winsch() is probably doing nothing since the character is nonprintable
(given that your program does not call setlocale()).

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