Re: extended ascii

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 31 May 2007, Bryan Christ wrote:

> Is it possible to display extended ascii characters with ncurses?  By 
> extended ascii I am referring to the the codes listed on this page:
>
> http://www.cdrummond.qc.ca/cegep/informat/Professeurs/Alain/files/ascii.htm

The second page has no relationship to ASCII (since ASCII is a 7-bit
character set).  Offhand that looks like Windows code page 437, e.g.,

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/oem/437.mspx

> Some programs (mc, giFTcurs, etc) do this (so I know it's possible), but 
> addch() definitely does not work.

addch normally follows the locale settings (and there aren't any locales 
which use that as an encoding).  Assuming the encoding actually works, you 
can override locales with use_legacy_coding()

I added that because lynx uses the feature (noting that very few 
applications actually require it).

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