decoding keyboard input when using curses

[Arnaud Delobelle]

Chris Jones <cjns1989 at gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> Try this:
>
> #include <locale.h>
> #include <ncurses.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>

/* Here I need to add the following include to get wint_t on macOS X*/

#include <wctype.h>

>
> int ct;
> wint_t unichar;
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>   setlocale(LC_ALL, "");                 /* make sure UTF8       */
>   initscr();
>   raw();
>   keypad(stdscr, TRUE);
>   ct = get_wch(&unichar);                /* read character       */
>   mvprintw(24, 0, "Key pressed is = %4x ", unichar);
>
>   refresh();
>   get_wch();
>   endwin();
>   return 0;
> }
>
> gcc -lncursesw uni10.c -o uni10         # different lib..
>              ^

My machine doesn't know about libncursesw:

marigold:c arno$ ls /usr/lib/libncurses*
/usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib
/usr/lib/libncurses.dylib
/usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib

So I've compiled it with libncurses as before and it works.

This is what I get:

If I run the program and type 'é', I get a code of 'e9'.

In python:

>>> print '\xe9'.decode('latin1')
é

So it has been encoded using isolatin1.  I really don't understand why.
I'll have to investigate this further.

If I change the line:

   setlocale(LC_ALL, "");                 /* make sure UTF8       */

to

   setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_GB.UTF-8");       /* make sure UTF8       */

then the behaviour is the same as before (i.e. get_wch() gets called
twice instantly).

I'll do some more investigating (when I can think of *what* to
investigate) and I will tell you my findings.

Thanks

-- 
Arnaud