Re: ncursesw + non-utf8 locales

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Felix Natter wrote:

> hi,
>
> Sorry for not trying to post to address@hidden, but there's no
> chance of getting an answer there :-(

yes (the alias was never used).

> I am co-developer of the typing tutor gtypist, which saves its
> lesson files in UTF-8, uses mbstowcs() to convert them to wchar_t*
> and outputs each character with ncurses' add_wch().
>
> This works fine with all utf-8 locales, but not with ISO-8859-1
> locales (LC_ALL=de_DE for me, because this is a ISO-8859-1 locale).
>
> I have attached a minimal example that includes the wideaddch() and
> widen() helper functions I wrote. If you choose a ISO-8859-1 locale for
> setlocale(), and switch gnome-terminal to Western (ISO-8859-15, which
> should be compatible), then you see only garbage on the screen.
> I guess this is to be expected when you try to output wchar_t (UTF-32?)
> to a 8bit console.

I'll look over your test program and see what can be done.

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