Re: Using UTF-8 with Ncurses / Xterm ....

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Ben Duncan wrote:

> Can anyone point me to samples or documentation on how to
> write C programs using UTF-8 for ncurses .

linking against ncursesw, and calling

        setlocale(LC_ALL, "");

is enough to make most programs display properly in UTF-8.
Doing input can be more complicated.

The test programs in ncurses' source provide a variety of examples.

> I am particularly interested in the U+2000 series of line drawing characters.

ncurses only "knows" about the ones which correspond to the graphic
characters defined with "ACS_xxx" names, such as ACS_ULCORNER, etc.

> Would also appreciate on any advice on doing this with the latest xterm.

The uxterm script is useful for setting the options and environment
for xterm with UTF-8.

> I run Slackware 12.2.
>
>
> Thanks ...
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