Re: multi-line field issues

[tjareson]

Unfortunately things were not as easy as I first thought:

Since I upgraded from ncurses 5.7 to 5.9 the multi line field issue is 
solved, but all off a sudden German Umlaut (äöü etc.) are not working 
anymore when using form_driver, which worked before with exactly the 
same source code.
Of course, locale settings didn't change. Also setlocale-settings 
command in the source is not change (de_DE.UTF-8 as before).

Now everytime I press an Umlaut key I get 3-4 "weird" chars instead of 
that one sign displayed.
ncursesw / formw etc. is linked like it was before. Also the make was 
done with wide-character support. Nothing changed accept the version.

Was there any major change regarding utf8 / locale support since 5.7? 
Honestly I'm a little bit lost.
The funny thing is: data I read from the database get displayed properly 
in forms, only entering umlauts with the keyboard is not working anymore.

What might be worth to mention: I'm using wgetch() to get keyboard 
inputs. (as before) If I'm using wget_wch() instead, I only get an empty 
character shown by form_driver.

Any ideas, hints?

kind regards
Tjareson.


Am 30.08.2012 18:00, schrieb tjareson:
> Am 30.08.2012 07:13, schrieb Thomas Dickey:
> > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 09:34:01PM +0000, Tjareson wrote:
> > > Sentinel <sentinel.2001 <at> gmx.com> writes:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > > > I have been studying some apps that
> > > > use
> > > > ncurses and found that none of them use multiline. Most just invoke 
> > > > vim or
> > > > write their own.
> > > >
> > > > Thus, at the time of set_field_buffer and field_buffer if data
> > > > transformation can be done so a file can be read and set in, and then
> > > > saved out, and it remains as is, it would be great.
> > > I'm currently implementing an application using ncurses and also 
> > > tried to use a
> > > multiline field to edit longer texts.
> > >
> > > Is there any solution to that issue? I have the problem that I can 
> > > edit properly
> > > in a multiline field, I even can load a TEXT-field from MYSQL into 
> > > it and it
> > > gets displayed properly (also with new lines etc.)
> > >
> > > But I was never able to get more back from a multiline field that 
> > > the first row.
> > >
> > > Someone wrote there is an application-wise workaround for that. Any 
> > > ideas what
> > >   to do solve that issue?
> > The example "demo_forms" seems to work - I'm not sure what issue you're
> > reporting.  (A short sample program might help).
> Thanks a lot for quick reply. I'm sorry but I had to find out that 
> this Ubuntu here was running with an ncurses version 5.7 for whatever 
> reason. After updating everything, all is working fine. (Could have 
> checked that before...)
> And: ncurses is great. Programming text interfaces is so much easier 
> with it. :-) Thanks for maintaining all this.
>
> Tjareson