Re: UTF-8 support

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Axel Heinrici wrote:

> Hi
>
> I think I found a bug.

yes.  in centericq.

> 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

probably not - you'd need centericq linked against ncursesw to handle
UTF-8.  (There may be problems that centericq exposes in ncurses, but so
far all of the reported problems have been in centericq).

In this particular case, I see that centericq's source calls only the
8-bit getch() rather than get_wch() which would be needed to return the
bytes in a usable form (and centericq's source displays none of the
workarounds that would be needed to use getch() as-is).

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