Re: Using UTF-8 with Ncurses / Xterm ....

[Ben Duncan]

JUST got the same thing done .... except on Slackware the 5.7 ncurses
is #include <curses.h>  with a ncurses.h sym linked to it.

After that .. all peaches and cream ....

Next is figuring out how to get the full 256 colors ...

Brian Raiter wrote:
> Just to provide more information (or confusion) ...
>
> On my system, the wide version of the header file is located at
> /usr/include/ncursesw/ncurses.h. There is no ncursesw.h anywhere. In
> order to make it all work properly, I had to:
>
> 1. #include <ncurses.h> (not ncursesw.h); and
> 2. add "-D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED" and "-I/usr/include/ncursesw" to my
>    compile commandline.
>
> (And, of course, link with -lncursesw.)
>
> When I did that, Ben's sample program worked fine.
>
> b
>
> .


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