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Hosiah · 01-19-2005, 12:23 AM

I'm just about pulling out my hair with this problem, now. I love curses programming in Linux, and have managed to create several nifty little applications in it. But I still can't get:

The extended ASCII-character set (like heart/diamond/spade/club)
The ncurses border-drawing characters (with the ACS calls to addch)
Any wide-character support at all (Unicode and etc.)

Now, I've downloaded the ncurses library v. 5.3 and even have the man pages on my system for add_wch() and similar functions. But gcc errors on attempt to compile these commands, and I can't find any of them in the header file!

I know what you're all thinking, "His hardware/configuration can't handle wide characters". Nope! Not it! I know it CAN, because when I type "cat /dev/random " at the prompt, I get every character in the universe printed on my terminal (and the occasional beep).

So, how or why or what or where? Anybody know how to do this?

01-19-2005, 12:23 AM	#1 (permalink)
Hosiah Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Des Moines, Iowa Posts: 4	ncurses won't display anything but keyboard characters! I'm just about pulling out my hair with this problem, now. I love curses programming in Linux, and have managed to create several nifty little applications in it. But I still can't get: The extended ASCII-character set (like heart/diamond/spade/club) The ncurses border-drawing characters (with the ACS calls to addch) Any wide-character support at all (Unicode and etc.) Now, I've downloaded the ncurses library v. 5.3 and even have the man pages on my system for add_wch() and similar functions. But gcc errors on attempt to compile these commands, and I can't find any of them in the header file! I know what you're all thinking, "His hardware/configuration can't handle wide characters". Nope! Not it! I know it CAN, because when I type "cat /dev/random " at the prompt, I get every character in the universe printed on my terminal (and the occasional beep). So, how or why or what or where? Anybody know how to do this?