Re: [PDCurses] Extended ASCII character encoding

2012-05-08 Thread Bill J Gray
>> Is there any particular character encoding associated with PDCurses? No. In the case you're talking about, the input comes from ReadConsoleInput(). It's Windows itself that determines the active console code page. (The tables in win32/pdckbd.c are all just for things like ALT and function ke

Re: [PDCurses] Extended ASCII character encoding

2012-05-07 Thread William McBrine
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:34 PM, William McBrine wrote: > You could set it to a so-called ANSI page if you wanted. I should add, there is one issue with this: The box-drawing characters. In the Win32 console port, these are defined in terms of CP437 -- both because that's the default console code

Re: [PDCurses] Extended ASCII character encoding

2012-05-07 Thread William McBrine
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Bill J Gray wrote: > Is there any particular character encoding associated with PDCurses? No. In the case you're talking about, the input comes from ReadConsoleInput(). It's Windows itself that determines the active console code page. (The tables in win32/pdckbd.c

[PDCurses] Extended ASCII character encoding

2012-05-07 Thread Bill J Gray
Hello all, Just got an inquiry recently about a problem in my Win32a flavor of PDCurses, which has led to a more general PDCurses question. The inquiry came from a gent using a Swedish keyboard layout. Win32a was insisting on treating it (at least partly) as being on a US layout. I think