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| From: | Thomas Dickey |
| Subject: | Re: How to do UTF-8? |
| Date: | Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:33:59 -0500 (EST) |
On Thu, 16 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()It calls setlocale(LC_ALL,""). My LANG is en_US.UTF-8, so I get UTF-8 encoding. I'm going to set up the company I'm writing this for with Putty in UTF-8, so this doesn't really matter, but how would I handle strings if some other encoding were in use? I'd like all strings to be stored as UTF-8 internally, regardless of locale.
You'd have to translate the strings - libiconv does that sort of thing. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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