Re: LANG env var

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Bob Rossi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if ncurses looks at and uses the LANG environment
> variable?

yes/no: ncurses expects that the application has called setlocale()
to use the desired locale.  That function takes into account $LANG
and related variables.

> I have someone reporting this:
>  I was wondering if it would be hard to fix cgdb to work better
>  with a UTF-8 code page.  My locale is "en_US.UTF-8" and when I
>  run cgdb the source file on the top half has a ~� at the left
>  instead of just a ~.  Not a big deal, but I was just curious
>  about it.

offhand, google indicates cgdb is a termcap application and is not
relying on ncurses to solve this problem.

> Should the curses applications be dealing with this problem? or is it an
> ncurses/terminal problem like the TERM env var is?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob Rossi
>
>
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