From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-12-21T16:31:04+09:00
Subject: curses - how to use unicode

Yesterday I got xterm working with UTF-8. I had made an oneliner that 
outputted a small box. 

puts [0x250c, 0x2510, 10, 0x2514, 0x2518].pack("U*")



When I try the same through curses.. then no unicode.
I don't see the small box.

require 'curses'
Curses.init_screen
Curses.cbreak
Curses.raw
Curses.noecho
Curses.nonl
window = Curses.stdscr
window.keypad(true)
window.setpos(0, 0)
window.addstr([0x250c, 0x2510].pack("U*"))
window.setpos(1, 0)
window.addstr([0x2514, 0x2518].pack("U*"))
Curses.getch
Curses.close_screen


What am I doing wrong?




ruby 1.8.1 (2004-04-24) [i386-linux-gnu]
/* $Id: curses.h.in,v 1.148 2004/01/14 23:50:12 tom Exp $ */


btw: I did the following to enable UTF-8 in an xterm:
>   xset +fp ~/local/lib/X11/fonts
>   setenv LANG dk.UTF-8
>   xterm +u8 -fa '-misc-*-*-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1' &

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Simon Strandgaard