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Re: Line Drawing and Unicode
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Thomas Dickey |
Subject: |
Re: Line Drawing and Unicode |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:51:00 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:10:35PM -0500, William McBrine wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, I wrote:
>
> > My experience (with Ubuntu at least) is that, in fact, you can't. However,
> > I _can_ link to ncursesw and still use the narrow functions, and it works
> > correctly then (within the limits of the console's limited character set),
> > as long as I've called setlocale().
>
> P.S. To clarify, with _either_ the wide or narrow library, when the
> console is in Unicode mode, you have to call setlocale() to get anything
> (even pluses and minuses). Otherwise you just get garbage.
agree.
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