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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Ben Duncan wrote:

> 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 ...

That's doable - but only by changing the binary interface,
e.g., --enable-ext-colors

(I install those libraries in a separate directory, and use rpath, to 
avoid conflict with the system libraries).

> 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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