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

[Tobias Boege]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> 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?
> 
> -- 
> Benoît Minisini
> 

I never needed my terminal to be UTF-8 but now the need seems have come
up... ncurses can handle up to 8 bits per character so UTF-8 is going to
display humbug.