Re: Problem with some pseudographic symbols

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Alexander Kresin wrote:

> --- Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Start here:
> >
> >    #include <locale.h>
> >
> > > #include <ncurses.h>
> > > int main( void )
> > > {
> >
> >    setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
> >  [ ... ]
>
> Great thanks. This really helps. Wonder only why it
> worked without it with older releases.

Offhand (I'll have to review this), the logic that would allow the
codes 128-255 to be treated as printable without having a locale set
was a special case - originally because some users said that locale
support wasn't that common yet (1998).  When I was making changes to
implement wide-character support, that (legacy-nolocale) code required
changes, e.g., to suppress it when there _was_ a locale defined.  It's
possible that the interpretation of codes 128-159 changed at that point.

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