Re: japanese broken in ncurses 5.7

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, ?????? wrote:

> I am trying to read a file which have japanese contents and display it by
> printw().
>
> but broken character was displayed.
>
> It's displayed well by printf() or cat command.
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>
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> So I re-installed curses library from version 5.7 to version 5.3.
>
> Then printw() of curses library 5.3 displayed it well.( but 5.4 didn't
> display well )

Did you link with ncursesw, or ncurses library?

> What should I do on 5.7 in order to display japanese character?
>
>
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> I followed steps as below in my c program.
>
>
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> 1.setlocale() // set shiftjis
>
> 2.initscr()
>
> 3.fopen() //open file
>
> 4.fgets() //read into buffer form file
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> 5.printw() //display the contents of the buffer
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>
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> Following is my current environment.
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> -emulator : putty

PuTTY has settings for translations (which are you using?)

It would help to have some sample data, to test with.

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