Re: ncurses shift-jis

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, technoxicated wrote:

> I have a rhel4.4 system. the locale is set to Shift-JIS

I don't recall what version/patchlevel of ncurses would be there.

> I am trying to read a file which has some japanese content and display it in
> a ncurses window. I can view the file properly using vi and cat also
> displays it fine. Foll are the steps that i follow:
>
> 1. setlocale () //set to shift-jis
> 2. initscr()
> 3. fopen() //open file
> 4. fgets() //read into buffer from file
> 5. printw() //display the contents of the buffer
>
> This program is displaying garbage. Is this the correct way to go about this
> or am I missing something?

It sounds right (what terminal type are you using, btw?)

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