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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Ben Duncan wrote:

> Ok, went back and checked ...
>
> No ncursesw.h anywhere.
>
> Removed all traces of libncurses and in the ncurses source
> did a make distclean.
>
> Then a ../configure --with-shared --prefix=/usr

The "--enable-widec" option gives you ncursesw (did you use that
in installing the library?).

If you install ncursesw after ncurses, it can overwrite the header 
installed by the ncurses build.  Compiles against either library
are supposed to work with the headers installed using --enable-widec.

I compiled your test program with

        gcc -o foo.c -lncursesw


> followed my : make ... then a make install ....
>
> Still .. no ncursesw.h ... this is ncurses 5.7 version.

sorry - I had in the back of my mind

        #include <ncursesw/curses.h>

discarded that as not being what you were likely to see, and blundered.

> Thanks ...
>
> > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 01:28:49PM -0500, Ben Duncan wrote:
> > > > Well I have had no luck so far getting UTF-8 extended characters to 
> > > display.
> > > >
> > > > Follows is my sample program .. am I doing something wrong here ?
> > > >
> > > > TIA ...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > #include <locale.h>
> > > >
> > > > #include <ncurses.h>
> >
> > perhaps this (unless the packager does something special, ncursesw's header
> > is named "ncursesw.h").  Changing that, I do get a graphic character...
>
> <SNIP>
>
>
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