From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@...>
Date: 2004-12-21T20:52:02+09:00
Subject: Re: curses - how to use unicode

Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

very likely ruby's package for curses doesn't link with the wide-character
variation (libncursesw for ncurses versus libncurses).  That's needed to
build up the contents of each cell on the screen (internally Unicode).

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