Re: extended ASCII characters do not show up

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Rajat Das wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I accidentally sent the last mail before I could finish it. There is more that 
> I found.
>
> The problem posted at the following URL is similar to mine.
> http://codenewbie.com/forum/printthread.php?t=2807
>
> As you will see at the end of the page, this person has also mentioned that 
> this is a bug with
> RedHat. I am including the URL below. I am not sure if the bug reported there 
> is the same problem
> as mine(they are speaking of composed keys).
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143014
>
> I also have a few questions:
>
> 1. If the problem is that that regular curses library libncurses, cannot handle 
> UTF-8 encoding
> then how come in Slackware/Mandrake I get the extended ASCII characters without 
> compiling with
> libncursesw? I mean, I am compiling with the regular library and yet get the 
> line drawing
> characters.

You're running Redhat 9 - what version of Slackware and Mandrake
(and more important, what version of ncurses)

> 2. What is the role of the locale environment variable in this?

The locale environment variable is used to determine whether to write
UTF-8 or some other encoding.  As I noted, for Linux console in UTF-8 
mode, one must write UTF-8 to show line-drawing.

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