Re: Writing Unicode

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 02:22:15PM -0600, Bryan Christ wrote:
> If my application is linked against the standard version of ncurses (not
> the wide version), is there anyway to directly write a unicode character to
> the underlying terminal in a way that ncurses would handle gracefully.  I'm
> guessing the answer is no and I need to use the wide version.

that's correct: ncurses only knows the number of cells that a given set
of bytes should take up if it knows the the encoding (it assumes that
if the locale uses UTF-8, that the terminal's consistent with that...)

The narrow version doesn't know about UTF-8

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