Re: [vile] Non-us keyboard layout mishandling.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> > > Is that the wide-character version of ncurses?  (libncursesw).
> > > ncursesw provides get_wch(), which decoded the UTF-8.  For instance, I
> > > use the ncurses test-programs to check this area.
> >
> > I linked my test-program against ncursesw.  get_wch() just hangs and
> > does not return for a long time when I enter something cyrillic.
> > getchar() and getch() returns multiple values for each keypress, which I
> > decode to ensure that the encoding is UTF-8.  Don't know whether this
> > information is relevant/useful since vile does not use get_wch().

I forgot to ask if your test-program uses setlocale(), e.g.,
             setlocale(LC_ALL, "");

though I'm unsure what would cause get_wch() to hang.  A debug-trace could
show the problem.

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