Re: wide chars functions don't work

[Gerhard H?ring]

Le 16/02/02 ? 08:13, Thomas Dickey ?crivit:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:48:20AM +0100, Gerhard H?ring wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I begin to wonder if anybody ever has actually used the wide character
> > functions in ncurses ...
> 
> a few

Apparently none of the prominent programs I use (mutt, mc, slrn),
though.

> [corrections to C source]
> >     addwstr(L"hallo");
>       and this is the bug you're reporting (sorry about that).
>       It looks as if Skimo's got a patch already.

Will try that soon.

> >     curs_set(1);
>       this call isn't needed btw...

Thanks. As you might have guessed, this was my first curses program in
C, after an unfinished one in Python. So it could have been just a
newbie problem.

> [...]
> > Now, are these functions actually implemented in ncurses? As far as I
> > can see in ddd, the wstr functions/macros keep calling themselves
> > recursively.
> 
> mea culpa (in context, this happens if I overlook some of the definitions
> needed to make lib_gen.c build properly).
>  
> > (In the end, I want to use these functions from Python)
> > 
> > Is this a bug?
> 
> that's what is known as a rhetorical question...

Well, in the past it sometimes turned out that the problem really was
PEBKAC :-)

Gerhard
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