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

[Tobias Boege]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Tobias Boege wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Beno?t Minisini wrote:
> > Le 22/08/2012 15:10, Tobias Boege a ?crit :
> > > 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?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Beno?t 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.

... or maybe not? The library uses some integer to store its 8-bit
characters together with character attributes and stuff. If the terminal can
assemble that together... Maybe you're right. I will anyway try it later.