laporte@sobmips.UUCP (p.laporte) (11/15/89)
We are using curses to do screen handling and need to use the 8 bits
to represent french characters. Our sreens are vt220 (NCR4970).
Our problem is that curses always strips the eight bit. Has anyone
succeded in convincing curses to accept and output the full 8 bits of
the characters. (raw is not sufficient).
Pierre Laporte
{attcan,mcgill-vision,telly}!sobeco!laporteandre@targon.UUCP (andre) (11/21/89)
In article <1989Nov14.181722.8266@sobmips.UUCP> laporte@sobmips.UUCP (p.laporte) writes: }We are using curses to do screen handling and need to use the 8 bits }to represent french characters. Our sreens are vt220 (NCR4970). }Our problem is that curses always strips the eight bit. Has anyone Use the A_ALTCHARSET attribute to get to the upper half of the terminal character set and make sure that your terminfo knows that escape sequence then you can use code like attr_on(A_ALTCHARSET); addstr("qwx"); attr_off(A_ALTCHARSET); to print a few box characters (i think). -- The mail| AAA DDDD It's not the kill, but the thrill of the chase. demon...| AA AAvv vvDD DD Ketchup is a vegetable. hits!.@&| AAAAAAAvv vvDD DD {nixbur|nixtor}!adalen.via --more--| AAA AAAvvvDDDDDD Andre van Dalen, uunet!hp4nl!targon!andre
rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) (11/29/89)
In article <1989Nov14.181722.8266@sobmips.UUCP> laporte@sobmips.UUCP (p.laporte) writes: >We are using curses to do screen handling and need to use the 8 bits >to represent french characters. Our sreens are vt220 (NCR4970). >Our problem is that curses always strips the eight bit. Has anyone >succeded in convincing curses to accept and output the full 8 bits of >the characters. (raw is not sufficient). The RISC/os release 4.0 curses library, based on the SVR3.0 version, is *not* 8-bit-clean. The version included in the about-to-enter-alpha-test release 4.50 is derived from SVR3.2, and allows full 6-bit character support. This will be released during the first quarter of 1990. -- ROGER B.A. KLORESE MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. phone: +1 408 720-2939 928 E. Arques Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 rogerk@mips.COM {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!mips!rogerk "I want to live where it's always Saturday." -- Guadalcanal Diary
mcdonald@aries.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) (11/29/89)
> >The RISC/os release 4.0 curses library, based on the SVR3.0 version, is >*not* 8-bit-clean. The version included in the about-to-enter-alpha-test >release 4.50 is derived from SVR3.2, and allows full 6-bit character ! >support. This will be released during the first quarter of 1990. Should we sell our MIPS and replace it with a 1960's CDC mainframe? I have always wondered why ANY system would go to all the trouble of throwing away half of the possible characters in a byte. Seems stupid. Doug McDonald
rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) (11/30/89)
In article <1989Nov29.151738.24726@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes: >>The RISC/os release 4.0 curses library, based on the SVR3.0 version, is >>*not* 8-bit-clean. The version included in the about-to-enter-alpha-test >>release 4.50 is derived from SVR3.2, and allows full 6-bit character > ^ >>support. This will be released during the first quarter of 1990. > >Should we sell our MIPS and replace it with a 1960's CDC mainframe? > >I have always wondered why ANY system would go to all the trouble >of throwing away half of the possible characters in a byte. >Seems stupid. It's an *8*... yeesh! One little typo... -- ROGER B.A. KLORESE MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. phone: +1 408 720-2939 928 E. Arques Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 rogerk@mips.COM {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!mips!rogerk "I want to live where it's always Saturday." -- Guadalcanal Diary
rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) (11/30/89)
In article <32364@servitude.mips.COM> rogerk@mips.COM (some fool) writes: >The version included in the about-to-enter-alpha-test >release 4.50 is derived from SVR3.2, and allows full 6-bit character >support. This will be released during the first quarter of 1990. Obviously the "6-bit" part wants to say "8-bit"... -- ROGER B.A. KLORESE MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. phone: +1 408 720-2939 928 E. Arques Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 rogerk@mips.COM {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!mips!rogerk "I want to live where it's always Saturday." -- Guadalcanal Diary