[Gambas-user] Bug in gb.ncurses component with non-ASCII characters

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 22/08/2012 15:10, Tobias Boege a écrit :
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, William Cabrera wrote:
>> Hi, when i print a text using print or printcenter function, the non-ASCII
>> characters are not displayed correctly.
>>
>> For example, when i run
>>
>> $hWin.Printcenter("??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??")
>>
>> The output is
>>
>> M-CM-!, M-CM-), M-CM-, M-CM-3, M-CM:, M-CM-1, M-CM-<
>>
>
> Hi William,
>
> ncurses is not aware of wide characters and the ones you tried to print look
> very wide. However, there is ncursesw which can do such things - according
> to the manpage. It would theoretically not be a problem to change to
> ncursesw but CDK, an ncurses widget libary, which I will use to implement
> controls is, in turn, incompatible with ncursesw...
> I'm sorry, apart from writing all controls myself, I couldn't do anything
> which means: I cannot do anything. But we can hope for CDK to become
> ncursesw-compatible which is a declared and urgent goal of the developer...
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>

If your terminal is UTF-8, and if you send the Gambas UTF-8 characters 
to ncurses, should'nt they be displayed correctly?

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Benoît Minisini