Re: extended ascii

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, scorpio2002 wrote:

> Hi there! I'm new to the forum. I'm looking for a way to get printw() to
> print extended ascii characters onto the screen. I tried that... but I see
> question marks ore blanks... maybe there is a function in the library to set
> the console so that it'll print extened ascii char too.

You have to setup your locale (environment variables) and the application
has to call setlocale().  ncurses' test programs do that, for example.

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