Re: Multibyte UTF8 charaters outputs 4 bytes on terminal

[suvidh kankariya]

Thanks for the pointer Thomas.
My target system did not had utf8 locale installed. Once I did that it 
started working.


Regards

Suvidh




On 7/6/2012 8:59 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Suvidh wrote:
>    
> > I am trying simple code to display multibyte(3 bytes in this case) UTF8
> > character. However I see 4 ascii character instead.
> > The middle UTF8 byte gets converted to 2 ascii characters resulting in 4
> > symbols on putty terminal configured for UTF8 and japanese font.
> > Ncurses versions :tried  5.7 and 5.9 and application is linked with
> > lncursesw library.
> > Ncurses is cross compiled for ARM architecture.
> > I see proper character when using printf. So my terminal settings are good.
> > Wondering what exactly I am missing.
> > I will highly appreciate any pointer or patch on this .
> >
> > Here is a snippet of code I am using.
> >
> >
> >   char tmp_buf[10];
> >      tmp_buf[0] = 'U';
> >      tmp_buf[1] = 0xE3;
> >      tmp_buf[2] = 0x83;
> >      tmp_buf[3] = 0xA6;
> >      tmp_buf[4] = 'S';
> >      tmp_buf[5] = '\0';
> >      printf(tmp_buf);   /*This prints the character correctly*/
> >
> >      setlocale(LC_ALL,"en_US.utf-8");
> >      
> If your machine's locale configuration doesn't contain this item,
> setlocale will fail (silently) and your locale will be POSIX.
>
> For that case, I see
> U�~C�S
>
> If you've verified that it does contain it, e.g.,
>         locale -a |fgrep en_US.utf-8
>
> then it's something I should look at more closely.
>
>