Re: How to do UTF-8?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> On Wednesday 15 March 2006 18:09, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > The ncurses test program (see the sources test/ncurses.c) uses setlocale()
> > and when ncurses is configured using --enable-widec, provides examples in
> > ncurses.c for line-drawing, etc., in menu F.
>
> I downloaded it with apt-get source, which applied a patch, built it and ran
> the test program. It doesn't have a menu F. I reconfigured with
> --enable-widec and got an F menu. I ran the A menu and got this:

If you configure using --enable-widec, there are uppercase menu entries A, 
B, C, E, F which perform the wide-character functions analogous to the a, 
b, etc., menu entries in the default configuration.

> Key pressed: 0431 ę = 0x119 (printable character)

That looks like UTF-8 on a non-UTF-8 display.

> Key pressed: 0431 KEY_F(17)
> (I had to type that in manually! ncurses grabs all mouse clicks and I can't
> highlight even if I stop it.)

The a/A menu entries enable the mouse.  Usually pressing shift is all 
that's needed to do select/paste (though of course xterm is configurable - 
and that binding is not necessarily so).

> The first one is "e" with ogonek (a Polish nasal vowel); the second is
> shift-F5.
>
> phma
>
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