From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-12-22T05:51:21+09:00
Subject: Re: curses - how to use unicode

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:39:31 +0100, Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:52:02 +0900, Thomas Dickey
> <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> wrote:
> > 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).

Ah.. I overlooked the 'w'.. I added  --enable-widec  when duing ./configure,
and now its much better.  Thanks
Is widec still experimental ?

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Simon Strandgaard