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UTF-8 support
From: |
Axel Heinrici |
Subject: |
UTF-8 support |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:04:57 +0200 |
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Hi
I think I found a bug.
This problem occurs on SuSE9.1 with centericq 4.11.0. The System has
ncurses 5.4-61. Locale is set to utf-8. Centericq seems to be handling
utf-8 in the correct way. I can send and receive messages with
non-ASCII-characters. There is absolutely no problem with non-ASCII
characters in normal shell operation. Also everything not coming from
keyboard seems to be displayed correctly.
The Problem comes when typing german umlauts. These display as two boxes
the moment they are typed. Centericq has "redraw screen" function. This
fixes the display of the umlauts. This makes me think this bug is a
curses problem because centericq is supposed to do nothing with the
characters on invoking "redraw screen".
After the redraw the cursor movement gets corrupted. Sometimes I can
backspace to the left out of the "edit message" box. Sometimes the
right margins of the edit box get moved one position left for every
pair of boxes which is turned into one character after redraw in the
specific line. Sometimes there are non erasable D or [ visible which
also vanish on the next redraw.
I don't know if anyone is interested in this issue. I am still not sure
if this a ncurses or a centericq bug. Anyway I thought it is worth
informing someone about this.
My C-programming experience is very little. So I can not assist with the
code itself. But I am willing to try to patch compile and test if
anyone is doing the code.
Axel
- UTF-8 support,
Axel Heinrici <=