Re: form_driver and wide-char

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Brian Tan wrote:

> Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Brian Tan wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I am trying to use form_driver with utf8 Chinese input. It seems that 
> > > form_driver (FC6 ncurses-devel-5.5-24.20060715  FC6) not supporting 
> > > wide-char
> >
> > The rpm spec file says it builds libncurses and libncursesw,
> > and the corresponding libform, libformw, etc.
> >
> > You should link against -lformw -lncursesw, etc
>
> Yes, as mentioned in my email, program is linked against formw and ncursesw. 
> form_driver ignores any non-ascii char. Is there a "w" equivalent of 
> form_driver (like get_wch vs getch) that I can use ?

sorry - I misread the email.  form_driver() only knows how to read bytes.

I hadn't really considered that, since most of the internals of 
form_driver() are also using bytes rather than wide characters.

It might be nice to have an alternate interface, but I was more
interested in making the form_driver() interface work properly.

Reading your email more closely, I'm not sure whether you are reporting
a problem with set_field_buffer() or with form_driver() - or both.

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