From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-12-23T07:51:39+09:00
Subject: Re: curses - how to use unicode

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:32:01 +0900, Thomas Dickey
<dickey@saltmine.radix.net> wrote:
> Carlos <angus@quovadis.com.ar> wrote:
> 
> > On the other other hand, I've found that if you use the functions without
> > "w", you can output UTF-8 strings directly :). It's more easy so...
> 
> > And I've also found the secret to make ncursesw print non-ascii characters:
> > set the locale LC_ALL to "".
> 
> yes (but it's not portable: won't work with Solaris curses).  There are
> some post-5.4 fixes to make this work, btw.


Ah.. I had set the LANG wrong..  now it works.
I see the box.. I see the unicode letters.. I can now sleep well :-)

setenv LANG da_DK.UTF-8


I tried and tried.. and now it works..

what a pleasant christmas present.. Thanks Thomas and Carlos.

Now we all just wait for ruby-1.8.2  :-)

Happy Xmas.

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Simon Strandgaard