Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!targon!andre
From: andre@targon.UUCP (andre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: curses 8 bits
Message-ID: <922@targon.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 89 09:02:00 GMT
References: <1989Nov14.181722.8266@sobmips.UUCP>
Reply-To: andre@targon.UUCP (andre)
Organization: Nixdorf Computer BV., DO, P.O. Box 29,Vianen, The Netherlands
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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).
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