Re: form library and UTF-8

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, TheLonelyStar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> OK, I just do not get it!
> The demo_form example is rather complicated.
> I can not find any difference I find significant to my example.
> Does anybody know what the difference is?

no (we haven't seen more than a few lines from your program)

> Or does somebody know an easy UTF-8 form example?
>
> Thanks!
> Nathan
>
>
> TheLonelyStar wrote:
> > True!
> >
> > My locale:
> >
> > > echo $LC_ALL
> > en_US.utf8
> >
> > Using ncursesw, the demo_forms works perfectly now!
> > But I must admit it is complicated. I will need my time to work it
> > through.
> >
> > My own program still segfaults.
> > Maybe someone can give me a hint, my corrent form-loop looks like this:
> >
> > while(!stop)
> > {
> >   int ch=getch();
> >   switch(ch)
> >   {
> >     //Some cases for handling keys like return, backspace and arrow keys
> >     default:
> >       form_driver(form, ch);
> >       break;
> >   }
> > }
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Nathan
> >
> > Thomas Dickey-2 wrote:
> > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, TheLonelyStar wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > the demo_forms does not segfault! But it also does not accept ä,ö or ü,
> > > > it
> > > > just beeps.
> > >
> > > Perhaps you're using libncurses (8-bit library) with a UTF-8 locale
> > > (which would need libncursesw).
> > >
> > > I don't recall seeing your locale mentioned.
> > >
> > > > Thomas Dickey-2 wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:04:40AM -0800, TheLonelyStar wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I tried the examples from here:
> > > > > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/forms.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have one problem: When I enter an Umlaut (ä,ü,ö), they segfault!
> > > > > > Can this be fixed?
> > > > >
> > > > > Perhaps those have a bug.  ncurses has its own examples in its
> > > > > test-directory (in the sources).  For instance, test/demo_forms
> > > > >
> > > > > --
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