Re: form library and UTF-8

[Kevin Monceaux]

Nathan,

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, TheLonelyStar wrote:

> 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?

It's been a while since I tinkered with the forms library but I think I've 
found something that might help.  I had a basic.c example that I think I 
got from a tutorial somewhere.  I had never tried it with ncursesw and 
formsw.  I compiled it against the wide libraries and it segfaulted when I 
tried entering a wide character.  Comparing it to a program I have that 
handles wide characters properly I couldn't see any significant 
differences in the form loop.  Finally I looked in the right spot.  Do 
you have:

#include <locale.h>

in your program and a call similar to:

setlocale(LC_ALL, "");

just before initscr()?

Adding the above to the basic.c example I had eliminated the segfaults.



Kevin
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