Re: Problems with get_wch() and wide characters

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Kim Tore Jensen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am attempting to get a wide character using the get_wch function:
>
> {
>         int chartype;
>         wint_t ch;
>         chartype = get_wch(&ch);
> }
>
> When typing ASCII characters as 'a', 'b', 'c' etc., they are returned
> with chartype = 0 and ch = 'a', 'b', 'c' etc.
>
> However, when typing non-ASCII characters as the Norwegian letters
> '?', '?', '?', they are not recognized. get_wch() returns only ERR and
> sets ch to 0.
>
> I use raw() and keypad(), and my LANG is exported to "nb_NO.utf8".
> System locales in general work well and my shell interprets these
> characters OK.

did your program do
        setlocale(LC_ALL, "");

?

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