Re: How to display my native language in fields and items

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, zhou_jing wrote:

> Hi:
>    I am a student in Beijing,china.Now i am doing a project these days.It is 
> a program using ncurses library.But now i have a problem.
> I want to display Chinese ,not English in my program.Though it can display 
> Chinese when i write it directly like waddstr("Chinese word"),
> it can not display correctly when i put chinese words in the items and 
> fields. When i write chinese in the items and display the menu,it 
> displays nothing.

ncurses 5.0 only knows about 8-bit characters.  You can compile 5.1 to
provide limited support for 16-bit characters (but things like addstr are
still 8-bit; there are other unimplemented calls that would be needed to
properly support multi-byte character sets).

>    Can u do me a favor?i use ncurses 5.0 library.Can this ncurses library 
> support display native language ?and how to do it ?
>    Thank for your help very much!!.
> 
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