Re: form library and UTF-8

[TheLonelyStar]

Hi,

OK, I just do not get it!
The demo_form example is rather complicated.
I can not find any difference I find significant to my example.
Does anybody know what the difference is?
Or does somebody know an easy UTF-8 form example?

Thanks!
Nathan


TheLonelyStar wrote:
> 
> True!
> 
> My locale:
> 
>> echo $LC_ALL
> en_US.utf8
> 
> Using ncursesw, the demo_forms works perfectly now!
> But I must admit it is complicated. I will need my time to work it
> through.
> 
> My own program still segfaults.
> Maybe someone can give me a hint, my corrent form-loop looks like this:
> 
> while(!stop)
> {
>   int ch=getch();
>   switch(ch)
>   {
>     //Some cases for handling keys like return, backspace and arrow keys
>     default:
>       form_driver(form, ch);
>       break;
>   }
> }
> 
> Thanks!
> Nathan
> 
> Thomas Dickey-2 wrote:
>> 
>> 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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