Re: form library and UTF-8

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, TheLonelyStar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the demo_forms does not segfault! But it also does not accept ä,ö or ü, it
> just beeps.

Perhaps you're using libncurses (8-bit library) with a UTF-8 locale
(which would need libncursesw).

I don't recall seeing your locale mentioned.

> Thomas Dickey-2 wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:04:40AM -0800, TheLonelyStar wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I tried the examples from here:
> > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/forms.html
> > >
> > > I have one problem: When I enter an Umlaut (ä,ü,ö), they segfault!
> > > Can this be fixed?
> >
> > Perhaps those have a bug.  ncurses has its own examples in its
> > test-directory (in the sources).  For instance, test/demo_forms
> >
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