Re: [open-cobol-list] Strange Terminal output

[Kevin Monceaux]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 03:22:45PM -0700, Jeffrey Chimene wrote:

> Both terminals are utf8. I'm going for the COBOL source specifying a
> different encoding. Is that possible in OC?

Yes, see:

    http://www.OpenCOBOL.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1225&forum=1

Instead of adding call "setlocale" to every COBOL program one can patch
libcob/screenio.c and add setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); to the cob_screen_init
function.  It's right after fflush (stderr); in mine.  Also one needs use
libncursesw instead of libncurses.  After doing so I was able to enter
various UTF-8 characters, including polytonic Greek, in an OpenCOBOL
program.  



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