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

[Ben Duncan]

Ok, thanks, Am on the right track. Update my ncurses library as well
as xterm.


Now, what I am trying to figure out is how to display some of the
more elaborate characters in UTF-8 ...

For example: 
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm?q=arrow&preview=entity

Shows me the "ARROW" sets. Let say i want to display the character as defined
as :

Unicode Character 'COMBINING ANTICLOCKWISE ARROW ABOVE' (U+20D4)

How would I go about doing that with addch ?

Would it be something like : addch( 0x20d4) ?

Thanks ...



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.
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