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

[Ramil Farkhshatov]

Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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, "");

I forgot about setlocale().  With it get_wch() works perfectly. Thanks.

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