Re: [Ncurses] Unicode characters in menu

[Yuriy Dmitrishin]

Thanks for your help. It was my mistake when I compiled with -lncursesw -lmenu instead of -lncursesw -lmenuw.

Btw, does menu library support color in menu items or I should write my own implementation?

2012/1/13 Thomas Dickey <address@hidden>

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 09:11:42AM +0200, Yuriy Dmitrishin wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Is there any way to display unicode characters as menu elements with menu
> library? I've hardly read docs but still can't find solution.

The ncurses test-programs (ncurses and demo_menus) are supposed to do this.
I recall testing the functionality by modifying the menu data to use some
UTF-8 example.  You should be able to see this work by building demo_menus
(with ncursesw/menuw) and giving the name of your menu-file from the command-line,
e.g.,

       ./demo_menus utf8menus.txt

makes each line in utf8menus.txt become an entry in the "Select" menu.

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Regards,
Yuriy Dmitrishin.