Re: form_driver() and extended ascii

[Marcello Botrugno]

Thomas Dickey ha scritto:
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, marcob33 wrote:
>
> > I have an application that uses ncurses and 'forms'. I need to port 
> > it in
> > Greek. I have configured FC6 to use ISO8859-7 and font iso07u-16.
> > Using the compose key I can insert and see Greek characters on the 
> > screen,
> > but only using the basic funcunctions of ncurses (es. mwprintw(), 
> > getstr()).
> > If I try to use a form, nothing appares in the form's fields. The 
> > problem is
> > that the Greek characters have values greater of 127 (for example 
> > alpha=224,
> > beta=225 etc.). These characters are treated as 'not printable' by
> > form_driver() so they are non displayed.
> >
> > Hi have already searched in the mailing list archive for some 
> > response, but
> > I did not find anything usefull.
>
> The topic comes up occasionally...
> > Is it possible to configure ncurses or forms, so that characters > 
> > 127 and <
> > 256 are treated by form_driver() as printable characters ?
>
> If your locale is setup properly, it should "just work".
I have the following settings:
LANG=el_GR.ISO8859
LC_ALL=el_GR.ISO8859

at the login I do the following commands:
   setfont  iso07u-17 -m 8859-7
   loadkeys  gr

What else should I configure ?

Thanks