Re: [Bug-guile-ncurses] Unicode in form-driver

[Mike Gran]

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> On Friday, October 10, 2014 9:29 AM, Konrad Makowski <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Could you send me link to git repo?
> 
> -- 
> Konrad
> 
> 
> 
> W dniu 10.10.2014 o 18:03, Mike Gran pisze:
>>  Sorry.  That was a long shot.
>> 
>>  I uploaded to the Git repo an update to guile-ncurses
>>  that will use the Unicode-enabled version of form-driver if
>>  the underlying ncurses supports it.  I tried with Polish characters;
>>  it works for me.  You need to build it on a version of ncurses
>>  from the last few months, however.
>> 
>>  I'll make a new release soon.
>>   
>>   
>>>  On Friday, October 10, 2014 8:53 AM, Konrad Makowski 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>  Well, that doesn't work. I wrote something like that, and got 
> only
>>>  "??"
>>>  instead of "?" when i write "ó".
>>> 
>>>  (map (lambda (i) (form-driver my-form  (integer->char i)))
>>>                        (bytevector->u8-list (string->utf8 (string 
> c))))
>>> 
>>>  -- 
>>>  Konrad
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  W dniu 09.10.2014 o 00:10, Mike Gran pisze:
>>>>    I haven't tried it, but, you could try
>>>> 
>>>>    (map integer->char
>>>>          (bytevector->u8-list (string->utf8 (string ch))))
>>>> 
>>>>    to convert a Unicode character to a list of bytes,
>>>>    and then feed each byte to form-driver.
>>>> 
>>>>    But I can't test that today.  Maybe tomorrow.
>>>>                               
>>>> 
>>>>>    On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 1:52 PM, Konrad Makowski
>>>  <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>    Could you write me some example of second option (with 
> UTF-8)?
>>>>>    --
>>>>>    Konrad
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>    W dniu 08.10.2014 o 23:48, Mike Gran pisze:
>>>>>>      Konrad-
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>      I guess you're using UTF-8 and not ISO-8859-2.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>      Support for characters with codepoints greater than 
> U+00FF
>>>>>>      is not available for form-driver because of limitations
>>>>>>      in the upstream ncurses form library.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>      A function was added this year into the upstream 
> ncurses
>>>>>>      form library that handles codepoints greater than 
> U+00FF.
>>>>>>      The "form_driver_w" function.  I haven't 
> wrapped
>>>  that
>>>>>    function
>>>>>>      into guile-ncurses yet.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>      For now, your options are
>>>>>>      1. use ISO-8859-2
>>>>>>      2. convert your character to set of UTF-8 bytes,
>>>>>>          and feed each byte one-by-one into form-driver.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>      I'll go ahead and add the new 
> "form_driver_w"
>>>  function
>>>>>>      to guile-ncurses this week.  But this will only work
>>>>>>      with a version of NCurses from this year.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>      Thanks,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>      Mike Gran
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>>      On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 1:06 PM, Konrad 
> Makowski
>>>>>    <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>>>      I'm using guile-2.0.9, yes i called 
> (setlocale LC_ALL
>>>>>    "") and yes
>>>>>>>      i
>>>>>>>      built --with-ncursesw flag.
>>>>>>>      In other part my app polish characters display 
> correct.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>      --
>>>>>>>      Konrad
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>      W dniu 08.10.2014 o 23:02, Mike Gran pisze:
>>>>>>>>        Hi-
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>        Three questions.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>        Are you using guile-1.8 or guile-2.0 or the 
> git
>>>  version?
>>>>>>>>        Did you call (setlocale LC_ALL "") 
> at the top
>>>  of your
>>>>>    program?
>>>>>>>>        When you built guile-ncurses,
>>>>>>>>        did you call ./configure with the 
> --with-ncursesw flag
>>>  so that it
>>>>>>>>        is built with the Unicode-enabled version of 
> ncurses
>>>  forms?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>        Thanks,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>        Mike
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>        On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 12:29 PM, 
> Konrad
>>>  Makowski
>>>>>>>      <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>        Hello i try to write application with
>>>  guile-ncurses and
>>>>>    stuck.
>>>>>>>>>        When i do something like that 
> (form-driver my-form
>>>  ch) and
>>>>>    type some
>>>>>>>>>        polish letter ie. "ł" or 
> "ó"
>>>>>>>>>        in form window apears ??.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>        How can i avoid this issue?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>        --
>>>>>>>>>        Konrad
>>>>>>>>> 
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