Re: form_driver and non-ASCII-characters

[Moritz Beller]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:35:37 -0400
Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:

> There are two problems:  it doesn't call setlocale().  The other is
> that the ch variable in selectCommunication() should be an int rather
> than a char.  That's causing it to be passed to form_driver() as -19
> rather than 237 (sign-extension).  g++ warns about this because the
> case statement cannot be properly matched either:

Thank you so much! I applied your suggestions and it worked all of a
sudden! 

I think you should mention to use the int type for ANSI characters in
the "NCURSES Programming HOWTO", though. It may also be wise to have a
line saying "make sure your locales are set correctly. You need to
set ... to be able to get non-ASCII characters."

Moritz
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