On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 11:35:08AM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Op 31-08-2025 om 20:14 schreef Thomas Dickey: > > ah... I've exercised the wctob for quite a while. In a quick check, none > > of the machines for which I have build-logs except for FreeBSD 4.9 > > (in a build from 2012) lacked that function. > > > > NCURSES_EXPORT(int) _nc_to_char(wint_t ch) > > ... > > > > Just so I know - what's the platform? > > Linux Mint. I didn't run into any problems -- I found the issue > through code inspection, because I'm looking for the place where > ncurses displays an unassigned codepoint as a space. (I want to > modify ncurses locally to let those codepoints pass, so that nano > can display a file in the same way that emacs and micro-emacs do.) > > I'm currently working through ncurses/base/lib_addch.c, but I > haven't found the place yet. If you have a hint for me, that > would be nice.
I think that if you modify render_char, that would be the simplest. Something like a check on wcwidth, and mapping the character to a space. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net
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