Re: ncurses plus utf-8

[jmaiorana]

Yes, I agree. With some cleanups as such, the gist of Elias's post would make a worthwhile addition to the utf-8 faq, imo. Also, if it could somehow be added to the ncurses manpage that would be a good place too... If you want to use UTF-8, you're pretty much done! Just work with the UTF-8 strings just like any other string. Just remember to use wcslen() instead of strlen() if you want the number of characters. This is particularily important when doing formatting for a curses app. For screen layout purposes, don't you really want to use wcswidth() instead of wcslen()? The former gives you the number of character cells that a string will move the cursor forward on a typical UTF-8 terminal, the latter gives you merely the number of characters, each of which may consume 0, 1, or 2 character cells. -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/