Re: [tlug] perl/curses/utf8

[Shmuel Fomberg <owner@example.com>]

On 2011/08/05 16:15, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> s smith writes:
>
>   >  Does anyone on the list use perl curses in utf8.  I can't seem to get
>   >  even printw to work and can't find anything on the web indicating it's
>   >  possible.
>
> Why not just use print to an appropriate terminal (Ie, one that groks
> UTF-8)?  That's the whole point of UTF-8 -- an 8-bit clean application
> will just DTRT.  At least in the standard C library, printw is for
> widechars, ie, UTF-16 or UTF-32.  But Perl's Unicode support is
> internally an extension of UTF-8 AFAIK, so `printw' in Perl doesn't
> make much sense to me.  (But then, not much in Perl does make sense to
> me, I'd rather read raw modem traffic. :-)

I took a passing look at the Curses module, and it is seen to be not 
unicode aware.
So maybe you should try to encode the string to UTF-16/32 before passing 
it to printw?
(using the Encode module)

Shmuel.