Re: Multi_key & ncurses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 05:32:40PM +0200, folkert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to enter multi-characters in an ncurses-application:
> 
> I enter before that in the terminal:
> xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = Multi_key"
> and then:
> capslock e =
> (these 3 keys) gives an euro sign: € <- there you should see an euro
> sign, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign

Something's amiss there.  Euro is U+20AC, which doesn't match the characters
in your message.  This is Euro: "€".
 
> In the ncurses application I get garbage or the terminal seems to hang - I 
> then
> need to press a couple of keys to-unhang it often that does not work.
> 
> #include <ncursesw/curses.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {

You left out
        setlocale(LC_ALL,"");

>       initscr();
>       start_color();
>       use_default_colors();
>       keypad(stdscr, TRUE);
>       cbreak();
>       intrflush(stdscr, FALSE);
>       noecho();
>       refresh();
>       nodelay(stdscr, FALSE);
>       meta(stdscr, TRUE);     /* enable 8-bit input */
>       raw();  /* to be able to catch ctrl+c */
>       leaveok(stdscr, TRUE);
> 
>       for(;;) {
>               wint_t ch;
>               if (get_wch(&ch) != ERR) {
>                       wchar_t temp[] = { ch, 0x00 };
>                       addwstr(temp);
>               }
>               else {
>                       addwstr(L" {ERR} ");
>               }
>               refresh();
>       }
> 
>       return 0;
> }
> 
> 
> Folkert van Heusden
> 
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